Tourism may be waning in the City by the Bay.
San Francisco, long known for its quaint cable cars, picturesque vistas, and liberal politics has fallen into a state of disrepair more closely resembling a scene from “Dawn of the Dead” than anything you’d expect in a first-world country. (ZeroHedge)
An Australian couple visiting the city were shocked by what they saw after deciding to walk back to their hotel:
“Is this normal or am I in a ‘bad part of town?’ Just walked past numerous homeless off their faces, screaming and running all over the sidewalk near Twitter HQ and then a murder scene. Wife is scared to leave hotel now,” reads a Wednesday posting by Reddit user /u/nashtendo.
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“We did La and Nyc on this trip too. Both felt safer,” he said later in the thread, adding “Syringes were visible, people were staggering, others had wide aggressive eyes. ‘Off their faces’ might be an Australian thing (sorry) but I meant just visibly drug affected.”
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“You see things on the streets that are just not humane,” Kevin Carroll, executive director of the Hotel Council of San Francisco told The Chronicle’s Heather Knight in April. “People come into hotels saying, ‘What is going on out there?’ They’re just shocked. … People say, ‘I love your city, I love your restaurants, but I’ll never come back.'”
Officials are struggling with how to keep the streets clean and safe, while accomodating a growing homeless population and HIV and Hepatitis C epidemics.
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