I'm just telling how it is. Most people go to SF for a job or a dream. Nobody can work hard forever and dreams either come true or burst. When they're done working hard they usually move somewhere easier. It's a cycle with people coming and going. And I don't have to post negative about SF... everyone knows it's a beautiful and gringy city at the same time depending if you're looking up or down the hill.
I think you gave a biased opinion (as we all do, that's fine). There are plenty of people over 40 in SF [1] and plenty of people who choose to live their full lives here. You may not be friends with them, but they exist.
What I also notice is that most anti-SF people need you to agree SF is bad. They are unwilling to accept that anyone could like it (despite it being one of the most in-demand places to live in America, which they hand wave away as being a jobs thing).
It's truly bizarre, because I comp it to a city like Paris which has many of the same cleanliness & "law and order" problems, but it has nowhere near the amount of people who demand you say it's bad.
Yeah low-key the worst part about SF is that it's in America (it gets all the problems of being the most liberal city in a conservative country), but also if it were in Europe it would be one of the worst cities there.
Honestly, that's why it's so polarizing - if you like the walkable layout/high density thing, you probably don't care about the better personal economic opportunities vs. Europe and if you're looking to get rich, you want a compound on the beach anyway.
Lived there for a while in 2014. It’s not as bad as people make it out to be, so people who live there are easily able to ignore it. Then when they leave, they can’t stop talking about how bad it was because it really is bad. Humans can endure/ignore a lot without saying something or attempting to fix it.
Every time I visit the supposedly 'great and affordable' cities I find myself in a car way more often, I find myself visiting homogenous chains way more often, and I generally find myself way more isolated in bubbles of my own economic class/social circle (largely due to driving everywhere).
To each their own (though, as implied, most anti-SF people think SF is an objective bad and aren't afraid to tell you that).
>Humans can endure/ignore a lot without saying something or attempting to fix it.
Very true... that's why I said SF is one of the few US cities I could live in [0] while it's still nowhere near as livable as EU or Japan. For me personally, livability comes down to the quality of public transit.
They then post negatively about SF online for the rest of their lives.