'San Francisco is dying': Before and after
video shows the mass exodus of huge brands
like Crate & Barrel, CVS and Office Depot
from the crime-ridden city caught in a
'doom loop'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Joe Hutchison
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/13/2023 5:44:15 PM
Before and after pictures have laid bare the mass exodus of huge brands from the city of San Francisco.
The video, made up of Google Maps screen grabs, shows large chain stores like Target and CVS before and after they moved out of the city.
Hordes of brand names including the likes of Whole Food and Nordstrom have recently moved out of the California city amid widespread crime and plummeting footfall. The city has also struggled for years with rampant fentanyl use and fatal overdoses, and is on pace for its deadliest year yet.
In the first five months of 2023, preliminary reports show there were 346 overdose deaths
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Noj15 8/13/2023 5:59:26 PM (No. 1533788)
"Grease" Newsom was mayor.
"Grease" Newsom is California's current governor.
He wants to run for President of the United States.
There. Is. No. Way.
50 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 8/13/2023 6:10:03 PM (No. 1533796)
Nancy "PutridPuke" Pelosi and her DUI husband will find a way to blame DJT for the cesspool.
33 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/13/2023 6:35:37 PM (No. 1533814)
The San Francisco wasteland.
This is what the left wants.
it's the left's model for society.
Business profits are secondary to promoting government policies.
Businesses cannot survive that way unless they are favored by the government.
Government picks winners and losers controlling everything.
Sound familiar?
It should. It's Communism.
38 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/13/2023 6:55:53 PM (No. 1533826)
It’s a self-inflicted wound. No sympathy.
41 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
pros7767 8/13/2023 7:19:17 PM (No. 1533837)
So glad my sister moved out a few years ago. She loved that city but it is indeed a wasteland now.
20 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Californian 8/13/2023 7:35:25 PM (No. 1533852)
Been dying for years. The Covid silliness just made it happen faster and now outsiders can see it, too.
19 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
jimincalif 8/13/2023 7:48:33 PM (No. 1533864)
I’m sure Newsom will say we have to redouble our efforts to address the disparate racial impacts of climate change. The one-size-fits-all leftist excuse.
30 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
sleona 8/13/2023 8:18:39 PM (No. 1533882)
San Francisco has always been dead to me. It’s a haven for weirdness and debauchery.
20 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/13/2023 8:28:53 PM (No. 1533885)
Around 2006, I once responded to an article here involving San Francisco and a corporate convention in the city that hadn't gone so well. I questioned why a corporation would want to hold a huge confab in San Francisco, given the leftward politics of even that time. One of our current prolific posters thoroughly excoriated me for my derogatory comment regarding San Francisco's local government. As a Texan commenting on the extreme leftist politics of the city's government, just like I criticize Austin's local government, I intended no insult to the few conservatives who remained lurking in the Bay Area, even though I was working between stints in the FAA, for an aviation-related company headquartered in Burlingame, about a mile south of SFO, two places where I was spending a lot of job-related time. I refrained from responding in-kind, as my mom, alive and well at the time, had taught me better than that, even though I occasionally fell short. Over the years, my observations and thoughts were born out by well known events that continue unabated. Even the firm in Burlingame, populated predominately with liberals, began hosting corporate events at a rustic restaurant, further down the coast on a hillside overlooking Half-Moon Bay. It appears that San Francisco is failing all but its criminals and drug addicts.
27 people like this.
San Frans**tco, Ubangi by the Bay.
10 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
TarAndFeathers 8/13/2023 9:25:47 PM (No. 1533902)
San Francisco is indeed dead, murdered by those who were trusted to protect her. The carrion are consuming her corpse.
22 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
scottj 8/13/2023 10:09:59 PM (No. 1533915)
Liberals destroy everything. How can anyone vote for them? Clearly the people in these cities are stupid. They live in misery and yet they keep voting for democrats. No sympathy for those fools.
17 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Omen55 8/13/2023 10:26:21 PM (No. 1533925)
The only thing that will save SF is the Big One.
11 people like this.
Sort of relevant. Just a little. My query is about the Leaning Tower of Frisco I was in the Navy stationed at the Federal Courthouse. Took many liberty days to see The City. A great place to visit. Sour dough bread, dungeness crab, stores galore, flowers hanging from light posts. What a shame. I have no desire to see Sfran again. I will remember it as it was in the mid sixties. So long great town.
20 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 8/13/2023 10:56:53 PM (No. 1533931)
I call this excellent news.
6 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/14/2023 12:01:51 AM (No. 1533940)
The majority of the people there made their bed when they voted for this.
Now they get to lie down in it.
12 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
justjana 8/14/2023 12:10:06 AM (No. 1533941)
Thirty years ago I took short trips to SF for business. I loved it so much I traveled there frequently for pleasure. Same with places like LA, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, NYC, Atlanta. They are hell holes now. And the scion of a Dem Queen of SF wants to be the president? How much money have these people raked in? Where is it coming from?
12 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
mifla 8/14/2023 5:24:36 AM (No. 1533963)
The citizens of this city have yet to realize the causal relationship between voting for liberal policies and the destruction of their city. Kind of like the promiscuous woman who keeps having sex and wonders why she keeps getting pregnant.
8 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/14/2023 5:32:27 AM (No. 1533966)
FTA: 'San Francisco is dying': BOO effen HOO! Not soon enough, there is nothing but garbage living there!
6 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 8/14/2023 5:44:57 AM (No. 1533973)
I remember that, #9. You were right then and are right now. In spades.
6 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
chance_232 8/14/2023 6:41:20 AM (No. 1533993)
What's happening in SF is entirely self inflicted. SF has been commiting slow suicide for decades now.
I visited family back in 1990, and after a few days, couldn't get out of there fast enough. Even 30 years ago the city was over populated, over priced and over regulated. What I remember most is that it seemed everybody and every publication had a political cause and everyone was angry.
It's a joyless city. It has that in common with NYC.
8 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/14/2023 7:30:28 AM (No. 1534011)
The smart ones left early. San Francisco will soon become nothing but cheap beachfront property that you can not afford because of the property taxes. If the city government had any brains at all they would turn it into a zoo.
7 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
broken01 8/14/2023 8:10:44 AM (No. 1534027)
I remember as a young Navy sailor enjoying my first shore command in nearby Oakland in the early to mid 90s. I often visited San Francisco and loved touring Lombard Street, Transamerica Pyramid, Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39, Treasure Island, Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz. Plus, just walking to the parks and taking the famous cable cars throughout the city. I had a good time in the bay area as it was the first time leaving in a major city with a famous one close by. Sadly SFO like OAK has been ruined by leftist democrat rule that was in place long before I got there. I had a buddy of mine that was up for orders last year and he wanted my opinion as to where he should go for his first shore tour. I told him to avoid CA because the state has been destroyed by rampant leftism. He wound up going to Florida.
6 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 8/14/2023 8:39:58 AM (No. 1534047)
My wife and I live in the SF Bay Area (East Bay), and used to visit SF about once a month to dine, visit museums, shows, etc.
We have witnessed the gradual -- and now sudden -- deterioration of SF firsthand, especially in the area around City Hall / UN Plaza where there is open drug use, feces/urine, and constant harassment from homeless drunks, druggies, and the mentally ill roaming the streets.
On our last trip (and probably our last to SF unless conditions improve), we took BART (local metro system) to SF, and were splashed (with other passengers) by a deranged woman wandering around the cars carrying two large open cans of beer (thank God, could have been urine or acid).
As we walked from the BART station up Powell Street (major cable car route) towards a restaurant near Union Square, passed many homeless using drugs or lounging around in a stupor. Smell of weed and urine everywhere.
After our meal, walking back to the BART station, we were passing a CVS Pharmacy, and bam, out ran a man carrying a backpack chased by another man and security guard. Looks like a customer got robbed in the CVS store . . .
Needless to say, this will be our last trip to a once beautiful city, destroyed by Dim policies that strive for utopia, but end up in dystopia.
7 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
ironchefw 8/14/2023 9:02:03 AM (No. 1534062)
Elite Dems want this for their serf voters.
1) They will promise the voters that if you elect them, they will fix it.
2) Then the elite Dems make thing worse while enriching themselves more
3) Go to Step 1.
7 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 8/14/2023 9:52:49 AM (No. 1534105)
No sympathy from me.
3 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
EQKimball 8/14/2023 11:02:45 AM (No. 1534153)
What does indulgence create? I have seen a homeless man using the fountain as a urinal in San Francisco's United Nations Square, and a pride parade near Golden Gate Park in which one of the participants was completely naked except for a fully transparent plastic raincoat. At least the city is no longer clothing optional, with the quaint requirement of putting a towel down before sitting in a BART car, on a bus bench, or at the library.
2 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/14/2023 11:16:18 AM (No. 1534159)
I'd play my violin - - but a gust of wind blew it through the holes in my screen door.
I'm heartbroken - - I loved that tiny, little thing.
2 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
columba 8/14/2023 11:28:45 AM (No. 1534172)
San Francisco is dying, an important food market in DC is closing, Obama is a homosexual - and now the govt. wants you to lose your sich washer as well. Oh! I forgot that gasoline is double since Mr Trump was denied his real win in the election.
HOW JUCH MORE WILL YOU STAND WHILE YOU ARE ARE BEING OUSTED FROM AMERICA.
2 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 8/14/2023 11:50:34 AM (No. 1534194)
San Francisco isn’t dying. It’s committing suicide. Let it.
2 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/14/2023 12:33:04 PM (No. 1534228)
There are SchiffT Holes, and there are SchiffT States...welcome to Californication!
0 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
Hazymac 8/14/2023 4:54:51 PM (No. 1534395)
San Francisco died spiritually long ago. The physical death of the city was certain to follow. The behavior that is ruining life in the city has been encouraged for the past two generations by leftist politicians. San Francisco voters are reaping what they have sown. They have very nearly ruined what is arguably the most beautiful American city. (Watch Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo from 1958 to see some of the city and surrounding countryside in its glory days.)
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