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2023-06-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

San Francisco launches $6 million ad campaign that paints it as 'quirky and fun' to lure tourists back to the city plagued by homelessness, brazen drug taking and rampant theft that has led retail giants like Nordstrom to shut stores

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-06-01 05:12|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Can't compete with Las Vegas on all counts.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-06-01 11:28|| 2023-06-01 11:28|| Front Page Top

#2 "Come for the human feces dodge relay. Stay because of the carjacking!"

Posted by Frank G 2023-06-01 11:30|| 2023-06-01 11:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Its like Call of Dooty and Pokemon Go! wrapped up in a self injecting nasal spray.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-06-01 11:47|| 2023-06-01 11:47|| Front Page Top

#4 I read recently the commercial real-estate crisis, was getting worse, according to SFGATE "The availability rate, which includes both vacant space and leases ending soon, has already hit 34.6%, indicating that the overall vacancy rate is poised to rise even higher next quarter and possibly through the end of the year." Apparently BART (the Bay Area Rapid Transit system) is facing failure without a $5bn subsidy because of massive fare revenue decline. Add to it the retail store exodus and the ongoing crime/public safety issues and SF has become the sucking chest wound in the already steep glide slope future for California citizens.

Now add the latest insanity from a state already facing a 31 billion dollar deficit. $1,200 a month unemployment checks for ILLEGAL aliens, paid for by the businesses through point of sale taxation via the unemployment insurance fee, so the cost added to all retail sales directly. This on top of full medical coverage and a package of other support like federal government cellphones. Had enough yet?

https://freebeacon.com/california/california-senate-approves-300-weekly-checks-for-unemployed-illegals/

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-06-01 12:12|| 2023-06-01 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 When the bottom finishes falling out of commercial real estate, there won't be enough revenue left from the diminished pool of rented space to maintain the physical plant of the empty space. When those tall buildings deteriorate and become unrentable, it won't matter if the market rebounds.

Pretty soon, cities like SF may remember poop clogged stree4ts as "the good old days."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-01 12:21|| 2023-06-01 12:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Will they selling quirky souvenirs like pre-worn clothes, lab supplies and candles that smell like urine?

Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-01 12:51|| 2023-06-01 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes, come see SanFrancisco! But only after you've visited Detroit.

Posted by Tom 2023-06-01 13:11|| 2023-06-01 13:11|| Front Page Top

#8 SF. Come for the marxist pervo show, stay for the hep-c.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-01 13:14|| 2023-06-01 13:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Link at Ace's to a Daily Star UK article explores the behavior of sea gulls nicking peoples' drugs.

I bet that is Quirky!

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-06-01 13:18|| 2023-06-01 13:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Baltimore, New York, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco. Democrats kill cities. It is now a proven fact.

San Francisco used to be an extremely beautiful city. Take a look at Hitchcock's movie Vertigo sometime. The city has wonderful architecture, pleasant weather and the natural beauty of San Francisco Bay. It was liberal, maybe a bit quirky but ultimately civilized. People there used to dress in nice clothes, enjoy dinner in fine restaurants, go to ballgames and the opera. They say it gets cold and foggy but it's never freezing cold, never hot and humid.

But politicians like Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom imposed their Marxist lunacy and now the city is ugly and dying. This is what Newsom wants to do to the whole state. Then he'd like to go on and do it to the whole country.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-06-01 13:57|| 2023-06-01 13:57|| Front Page Top

#11 When the bottom finishes falling out of commercial real estate

We may be close. Trailing daughter #2 and her very tall husband popped down today for a quick visit — when her employer told everyone last fall that due to the company’s permanent work-from-home status Dallas employees were free to live anywhere in the country as long as they could get to the office for occasional in-person team meetings, td#2 and her husband took the opportunity to sell their house and move to Chicago, which they’ve greatly enjoyed. However, she was just informed that they will soon have regular mandatory in-person team-building social get-togethers in addition to approximately monthly meetings...and I strongly suspect there will be more of both over the next few years, making living out of town much more expensive than originally planned.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-06-01 20:46|| 2023-06-01 20:46|| Front Page Top

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