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San Francisco's ‘poor street conditions' a factor in city's loss of $64M Oracle tech conference: reports
2019-12-11
[Fox News] dodging homeless, urine, needles, feces = "Street conditions"
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  It's sad. Can't even walk through the touristy zones near Civic Center anymore. A literal Shitshow.
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-11 17:26  

#2  I can echo that Abu. Last time I attended was in 2009 and they blocked of the streets around Moscone.
Open world attracted the best and brightest. Now all SF attracts are flies.

For 9 years I rode BART into the city from the East Bay. Happy in Idaho now...never going back
Posted by: Warthog   2019-12-11 17:22  

#1  Larry Ellison used to put on a heckuva show for Oracle OpenWorld. I remember one huge party at the Cow Palace that featured performances by Lenny Kravitz and Stevie Nicks. Everything, well everything legal anyway, that you could possibly want in a party was there. The conferences, exhibits and keynotes were all extremely interesting for nerds like me.

I think it was about 2013 when I last attended. After that I refused to go anymore. The conference was still great but anywhere I went outside of Moscone Center I ran into weirdos, deviants, perverts, bums, panhandlers, pee and poop. I imagine it's gotten worse since then but I wouldn't know because I'll never go back to San Francisco.

Oracle Corporation is based in Redwood City which is just south of San Francisco. I think just about all of his life, Ellison has been a denizen of the Bay Area. For them to move OpenWorld to Las Vegas says a lot.

Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-12-11 14:37  

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