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San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate

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Re: San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate

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Post by booboolayla »

aaomidi wrote: post #26
fosk wrote: post #13

> But there are many reasons why the region could finally be experiencing a shrinking population: And yet the author is missing the elephant in the room: the incredibly deteriorating living conditions in a city crammed with drug addicts, human feces and casual violent aggressions at all hours of the day. A city that enables the "homeless lifestyle" without any accountability. Homelessness is - for the most part in Sa…

How do you propose to solve said drug addiction and homeless lifestyle?

I say we let them continue "thriving" just like we did for decades. Left wing "activists" keep their steady income so they can continue pretending to solve problems, the homeless will be happy too. As for tax payers, we can scare them with Trump and republicans so they keep voting for us. What do you say? Sounds like a win-win-win to me.

Re: San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate

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Post by renewiltord »

fosk wrote: post #39
aaomidi wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you propose to solve said drug addiction and homeless lifestyle?

Well for starters, not allowing open air drug dealing and arresting illegal drug dealers in the streets. Cooperating with ICE, and so on. Starting to take action against homeless that do refuse housing because they enjoy the homeless lifestyle, which in turn will make it less attractive for non-native homeless to come to San Francisco.

Cooperating with ICE to send these people back to America where they come from? My, my, San Francisco’s atavistic parochialism is really something but calling ones fellow Americans illegal immigrants. That’s good.

Re: San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate

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Post by kube-system »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #11
exhilaration wrote: post #2

Per the article, this is based on an analysis of 1,200 searches done on their platform. It seems like a stretch to use those figures to reach conclusions for a city of over 800,000 residents.

came hear to say the same thing. the submitter should not have used a over exaggerated title. 1200 people is not an "Unprecedented Rate".

90% is the rate. 1200 is the sample size.

Re: San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate

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Post by tqi »

nikhilsimha wrote: post #43
exhilaration wrote: post #2

Per the article, this is based on an analysis of 1,200 searches done on their platform. It seems like a stretch to use those figures to reach conclusions for a city of over 800,000 residents.

Some stats from https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm Plugged in 800,000 as pop size, and 99% as confidence level and 4 as confidence interval. The number it spits out is 1039 It is a pretty good sample size.

That only holds true if you assume this sample is representative of the overall population of SF.

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Post by myspider »

exhilaration wrote: post #2

Per the article, this is based on an analysis of 1,200 searches done on their platform. It seems like a stretch to use those figures to reach conclusions for a city of over 800,000 residents.

Not to be cynical, but this strikes me as more of a ad - or click bait. Search numbers on a website that I, at least, have never heard of is pretty poor evidence for a trend.

Re: San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate

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Post by thrownaway954 »

aaomidi wrote: post #26
fosk wrote: post #13

> But there are many reasons why the region could finally be experiencing a shrinking population: And yet the author is missing the elephant in the room: the incredibly deteriorating living conditions in a city crammed with drug addicts, human feces and casual violent aggressions at all hours of the day. A city that enables the "homeless lifestyle" without any accountability. Homelessness is - for the most part in Sa…

How do you propose to solve said drug addiction and homeless lifestyle?

give them the compassion and support that any one of us deserves as human beings. if they are mental ill, then get them on the medication they need. if they want a job, give them one. if they are on drugs, get them into a program like NA and give them the medication to combat the withdrawl. everyone deserves the help the desire. there is no reason why we should putting each other down.

Re: San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate

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Post by fosk »

renewiltord wrote: post #52
fosk wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well for starters, not allowing open air drug dealing and arresting illegal drug dealers in the streets. Cooperating with ICE, and so on. Starting to take action against homeless that do refuse housing because they enjoy the homeless lifestyle, which in turn will make it less attractive for non-native homeless to come to San Francisco.

Cooperating with ICE to send these people back to America where they come from? My, my, San Francisco’s atavistic parochialism is really something but calling ones fellow Americans illegal immigrants. That’s good.

If there is no housing available, then why are illegal immigrants tolerated which would arguably make the problem worse? It makes no sense.
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