SF Tourism Board Launches New Ad Campaign to Sell City as Still Quirky and Fun

https://sfist.com/2023/05/30/sf-tou...ampaign-to-sell-city-as-still-quirky-and-fun/

Comments on the ad of course are turned off.

Does the ad make you want to travel to San Francisco?
Narratively I saw the couple needing a couple drinks after arriving and having their car smashed and grabbed so they lost all their valuables.
The city is so bad now that they barely can feature much of what would make you want to see it in the ad.
The reality outside of the ad...

Well the early morning clean up and attempt to "have a conversation" ended up amounting to the politicians running back to the offices they hide in while doing nothing to solve the problems they've allowed and created.
How will this turn out for San Francisco? Money well spent or money down the drain while doubling down on failure?

 

My sister in law is an engineer for the state of California, and when she attended a convention in San Francisco her rental car was broken into and all her luggage and a $3k camera were stolen. She said she would never go back.

 

I've been to/thru S.F. many times.

Used to be a great city to enjoy.

I love the drive north thru Mendocino County, and then thru whine country, on to the redwoods.

I'll never do it that way again. I'll vote with my feet as they say.

 

Me and my co-workers went for dinner after work, and had all 4 lap-tops stolen from the car at the parking lot. It was in Charlotte, NC. See, theft can happen any city in this country.

I have been back in Charlotte many times after that incident.

As for San Fran, I found it too touristy, and that was not the main destination anyway, - Lake Tahoe & Yosemite were, which were fantastic.

 

Speaking of San Francisco…..I wonder what the kickback was.

 

Charlotte is very blue and full of crime. I had a guy transfer there and he came back to his old job in El Paso before I could get approval to replace him.

 

You might want to double check that, because Charlotte is on spot #54 in US cities with practically every Florida and Texas metro worse off than Charlotte.

So, no, Charlotte is not "full of crime". Its actually not a bad place to raise a family. Plenty of jobs, good schools, relatively low crime. They have their bad neighborhoods like every other city, but not as bad as many other cities of that size.

 

Great point. Noting that one terrible city can't be judged because another terrible city using the same type of governance is just as bad or worse is just insanity.

 

The guy I was talking about told me you don’t want to go to the other side of the tracks in Charlotte. The job he took had him working in some bad areas, so he got out.

 

SF and Charlotte has same type of governance.....LOL

Yea, sure man.....the guy who told you.... Our biggest client was in Charlotte and I must have been there 25 times, sometimes for extended periods of time, and I can tell you its a pretty nice city, at least the areas where I was (nearer SC border). Tons of corporate offices and upscale neighborhoods. Billy Graham was from there, and he never complained. But sure, there ARE bad areas, like any other city, and if your friend worked in those areas then it is what it is. Pretty much every metro in Florida has no-go areas, and I live about a mile from one of them. Not sure why he'd trash the whole city if he worked in the bad areas

 

When I hit the link, here is the title that I get:
SF Tourism Board Launches New Ad Campaign to Sell City as Still Quirky and Fun
^No mention of "doubles down" or "delusion"...
Anyway, as to the article in the OP:
1) Can't go wrong with Judy Garland:

2) Regardless of the new ad campaign, everybody is free to visit (or not) if they wish...
Anybody who doesn't want to visit SF can just stay home or go elsewhere...
^Problem solved...

 

San Francisco has turning into a toilet bowl and a used needle disposal center, quite literally. The big shopping stores are moving out, and the place is losing all of the amenities that make big cities attractive.

Chicago, Philadelphia and New York are all headed in the same direction. What they all have in common is long term, one party, woke Democrat rule with pro-criminal George Soros DAs in charge.

 

The guy’s job was cable TV maintenance, you know them as the guys with the bucket trucks. He had to work during the maintenance window, that’s the only time stuff can be disconnected and worked on. That window is from midnight to 6am, and his assigned area of responsibility was pretty rough according to him.

Edit: on the flip side, all of the company’s controllers were removed from individual cable systems and relocated in Charlotte. That was with Time Warner before they merged with Charter and became Spectrum. The controllers are computers that send commands to your cable box telling it what channels to bring in. They also control the speeds modems operate at. When you call customer service and want to add a channel, they go into your account and add it, that information is sent to the controllers which then authorize your boxes to receive that channel.

The people who run and operate the controllers are well paid because if one goes down then the entire area controlled by that controller loses all video, modem and telephony service. So I’m guessing there are good areas in Charlotte but this guy didn’t work in one of them, probably because he was the new guy.

 

Sad that no matter how bad things get, the republicans are still unelectable.

 

California is a **** hole. Let the **** pile burn.

 

And whose fault is that? It might be voters who can’t get their head out of their posterior.

 

The trouble is California’s bad ideas and bad politicians keep moving out to the rest of the country. We are stuck with Harris, and everyone can see how bad she is. We were stuck with Pelosi. Some very conservative Republicans would say we are stuck with Kevin McCarthy, but I think that he has played the cards he has as well as he can.

 

A few years ago a family member went to SF, went the prime tourist area right near the boardwalk and pier.
Apparently the parking there is 4 dollars for each 15 minute increment!
This is the public parking with parking meters on the streets, and you're lucky if you can find a public space available because the private parking garages are even more expensive. It's difficult to find any parking space on the street where there isn't already a car parked.
The meter machines only accept credit card, no coins.

 

people like this only vote for democrats.

 

The first and only time I saw credit card only parking meters was in Huntington Beach, CA, and my first thought was how much did it cost to change every meter, run wires to them, and set up the infrastructure to support them?

Regarding paying $16 an hour to park in San Fran, why would anyone pay at all considering they don’t arrest people when they walk out of stores without paying.

 

Dang forty-five plus years here, never have I locked my vehicle around town parking lots or in my driveway.. And I have never had a single thing stolen car, home or out of my yard!

Crazy huh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And my truck has like $500 worth or fishing gear, range finder, Binocs, and assorted ammo and skinning gear

 

Well the people in California are starting to clash. They've almost had enough. Almost. May need to marinate in the stink of human feces just a tad longer

 

Here's a story that won't help San Fran much, the city is full of crime and racists.

Immigrant store owner begs San Francisco for help after losing $100K to burglars: 'Worse than Afghanistan'

A San Francisco store owner who immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan says he is at his wits end with crime in the city after a gang of thieves stole over $100,000 in merchandise from his tobacco shop.

"The politicians need to get a grip on this because It’s worse than Afghanistan or Iraq," Zaid, co-owner of Cigarettes R Cheaper in San Francisco’s Richmond District, told Fox News Digital. He was referring to crime in the city following a robbery Tuesday night, when a half dozen thieves smashed his windows and made off with about $80,000 in merchandise and $20,000 in cash.

"At least in Afghanistan the Taliban will cut your hand off and people are afraid to commit such a crime," Zaid said, adding that he sees people stealing from nearby stores every day.

"They know the police won’t do anything," Zaid explained, adding that the thieves were in his store for 18 to 20 minutes and had plenty of time to "ransack" the place. Zaid added that police have told him that they are short-handed.
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Breed, who has recently downplayed the severity of rising crime in her city multiple times in recent months and suggested that "systemic racism" is to blame, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/im...osing-100k-to-burglars-worse-than-afghanistan

 

Let me guess... You don't live in a "diverse" neighborhood...

 

What's your perception of diverse? And what percentage of those "diverse" are you gravitating too as the problem,