every restaurant is CLOSED in San Francisco

It’s not just the closed store fronts. It’s the thousands and thousands of people’s livelihoods destroyed. All their hopes and dreams….all gone. And all unnecessary.

As a person who lives in a Midwest college town, I find the rapid decline of San Francisco to be morbidly fascinating. Restaurants, banks, retail shops, beauty shops---ALL CLOSED. I wonder if the voters are intelligent enough to figure out that this didn't happen by accident, that it is due to foolish and misguided government policies. Do the voters even care???

San Francisco was arguably the most beautiful large city in the US. Homelessness, addiction, mental illness, crime and the impotence of local government has destroyed it.

Born and raised in Chicago and in 50 years the utter destruction of that city is staggering, Watching you roam the neighborhoods there gives me a strange sense of deja vu comparing the two cities. I miss neighborhoods where everyone knew each other, there were little "Mom & Pop" shops all over, and businesses had been in the family for generations. Community pride is a thing of the past, nobody connects anymore like they used to with people barely talking to one another. Depressing as hell, and the rot is spreading.

It's not a bike lane that is destroying businesses, it's the city's refusal to arrest and convict criminals

My cousin bought a restaurant in SF. The health department there is aggressive. When you buy the business, they come in and say they don't like your tiles, they don't like your sink, all sorts of pointless things that cost tens of thousands of dollars to fix for a small, family-owned business. Its difficult to think the City of SF cares about small business, family owned, immigrant owned business, seems they want these places to fail.

Really love what they've done with the place. The leadership in that community have such a distinctive style.

I literally just got back from San Francisco. It's also true that a lot of places are also closed in Chinatown and Fisherman's Wharf. Sadly, even the icons of old San Francisco restaurants have been attacked. namely the signs of the old Doggy Diners that used to be around San Francisco were displayed in Golden Gate Park until some human trash decided to burn and destroy them.

Great documentation, Leo. The voters had a choice between Newsome and Larry Elder and they chose to continue this way of life by voting for Newsome.

As an Englishman, I visited San Francisco about 40yrs ago, and it embodied the "American dream" we were told about. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay there. So sad that it has since become the American nightmare.

In 1966 We often spent a weekend in San Francisco! Market st was a very busy street with cars and buses, lots of shoppers enjoying everything!! So sad to see it as a Dirty Junkyard now!😢

Black Mayor, Black femail police chief, police not supported, and people allowed to live in tents on the sidewalk, now you are looking at the result. There are people who let this happen.

You're living thru the biggest property grab in California history.

These people in SF are insane. They keep voting in the same people and keep expecting different results.

Every American should watch this video. It’s the future.

Making streets more pedestrian-centered normally increases foot-traffic to stores, especially in a city like San Francisco where most people don't travel by car... When I lived in SF there was massive foot-traffic in the areas you're describing. I went to those restaurants and bars, and I didn't know a single person who got to them by car. That said, when everyone was getting kicked out of their affordable homes I saw the writing on the wall and left SF. I never thought it'd get this bad though.

Lived in SF for 30 years, got out Fall 2019. I would never go back to a city where the people running it actually HATE every citizen living there.

fun fact: cyclists hate the middle bike lane going down valencia as well, just terrible city planning at its worst

Kills me when I see bicycle lanes with NO bicycles. See them in every big city yet rarely is there ever a bicycle using them. Meanwhile the businesses start closing just so the city council can virtue signal.

San Francisco, the United States, most expensive ghost town. Someone needs to send this to the mayors office. But I’m sure they wouldn’t give two cents about it.