70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
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Re: 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
#2I feel like this experience is so common it’s almost cliche, but I ended up moving with my family out of the city in mid 2020 mostly due to the major influx of homeless into our neighborhood, which had very little before. I didn’t like my kids facing that every time we walked to the park or the grocery store. There was also a rise in petty crime that made the neighborhood feel a lot less safe.
It’s a tough situation. At the end of the day, mental health shouldn’t fall to any one city to be responsible for, but we have to start somewhere. I hope for the best and that SF can come up with an effective way to help people off the streets.
Re: 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
#3Manufactured consent.
Re: 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
#4I wonder what percentage of residents support the tax increases necessary to provide such services.
Re: 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
#5Manufactured consent.
Could you be a bit more specific about what you mean? By itself, that drive-by comment doesn't tell us much...
Re: 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
#6This is interesting given the protests. As I understand it, San Francisco is generally considered to be a very liberal and progressive city. The politicians are generally considered to be very liberal and progressive. These are the same groups, however, that want to defund the police. I don’t get it. You can want both police reform, and policing, but without the police there’s not really anyone capable, trained, or just available to confront dangerous criminals and individuals. It’s almost like a very radical group pushed for something and they went way too far, so now the more rational side is like whoa wait a second
Re: 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
#7I wonder what percentage of residents support the tax increases necessary to provide such services.
Except the issue is that there is a tragedy of commons, as SF increases resources for homeless more and more homeless flock to the city thus requiring ever increasing amount of resources. I am honestly not sure what to do other than support more nationwide solutions.
Re: 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
#8I wonder what percentage of residents support the tax increases necessary to provide such services.
well it short of already has begun, it was voted on and I do pay for the CBD covering my area to clean up the streets and provide security services:
Re: 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
#9Manufactured consent.
Could you be a bit more specific about what you mean? By itself, that drive-by comment doesn't tell us much...
Well, a quick Google search brings this up from Wikipedia:
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. It argues that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion", by means of the propaganda model of communication.
Re: 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
#10News flash: Raging pandemic lowers quality of life.