Reasons Why San Francisco Is the Worst Place Ever

[hunter]

36. I'm a child of past times. I've slept in the Golden Gate Park or in the homes of people I just met.

I wouldn't do the 'seventies over again, but it's a part of who I am. I experienced my first dive-bar violence in San Francisco.

I've got relatives who still live in San Francisco. No, they are not wealthy, but they still manage to exist in the few niches not overrun by big money.

My great-grandfather owned a big house in San Francisco. My grandma was born there. He passed away over-leveraged, just before the Great Depression started, and this was one of the properties lost. The house still stands but it's been sub-divided into apartments. I stopped by the place a few years ago and one of the residents, a Middle Eastern immigrant, was astonished that my great grandfather, his wife, kids, and an Irish cook-housekeeper had once had the entire house to themselves. There are six mailboxes now and quite a few unrelated people living there.

The uber-wealthy class benefits from austerity, recessions, and depressions. That's when they steal all the stuff hard-working, optimistic, and ethical people have created.