Jennifer Sey
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Yeah.
They really fucked themselves during COVID.
The entire downtown is destroyed.
So you can't have a thriving city with no downtown.
But the offices were closed so long.
I mean, the new mayor of San Francisco just now this year told city workers they had to go back to the office.
They've been working at home for five years and they're all pissed off.
They have to go back to the office.
So that hollowed out the downtown, which means all the restaurants closed.
And then the crime got so bad because it was empty that all the retailers started leaving.
So 50 percent of the storefronts closed downtown, like the big fancy retailers, Neiman Market, like all the fancy places.
And the offices are still at half capacity.
So you can't have a city with no downtown.
I mean, you can't.
It's not a city.
They can't fix it.
That's the best thing about San Francisco.
But yeah, a lot of the restaurants closed.
They kept everything closed too long.
And then it just died and people left.