I was in SF last week. It is still the wonderful world class city that it has always been.
Yes there is some crime and homelessness........just like there is in every other sizable town and city.
If you knew anything about California you would know that the conservative parts are far worse off then the liberal parts.
California's Republican-voting counties exceed Democratic counties in homicide and other violent death, reported crime, criminal arrest, drug and alcohol death, gun death, and incarceration rates.
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Worse by two to three times.
And.....
Need more proof?
Um... I'm not as ignorant about California as you assume.
I've lived in California and visited it many times.
I spent a year in Vallejo attending school in the Navy.
Bought my first car in California and put nearly 20,000 miles on it in that year, traveling everywhere I could
Wife and I lived in Sacramento for a year and a half.
I traveled most of the northern part of the state in my job while there.
We've vacationed there several times, including on our honeymoon.
I've relatives in Southern California, friends in the LA area, Bay area and places in between.
I've traveled Highway 1 probably 4 times, I've visited practically every major park in the state.
What you're saying is nothing that can't be said of any other state in the union - you can cherry pick this city, that county, this region, or that and do precisely the same thing you're attempting here.
But none of that flies, and do you know why?
Because such whataboutism is poor, faulty logic and doesn't address the reality of the actual claim being made by the OP, or myself for that matter.
California HAS changed, and changed radically, and that for the worse. No amount of denial can change that.
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