re: Illegal Honduran nationals distribute most of the drugs in San Francisco.

I lived in SF for a year in 2007. I remember being blown away by what an awesome city it was. It seemed like a paradise - full of great music an restaurants, beautiful women, weather was perfect, people were laid back.

It's shocking how far the city has declined in 15 years. Even as more and more super-rich have moved in and bought up all the real estate, the conditions on the streets have continued to deteriorate to a pathetic degree to where you have tech billionaires and plutocrats living in the kind of extravagant wealth people in the heartland can only dream of, right alongside literal street urchins living in the kind of squalor that would make the urban poor in New Orleans blush.

As a city, it has become a sad indictment of a certain kind of Northern California culture that values cultural status over human life even as it pretends to be this progressive wonderland. I'd like to think it can't go on like this and San Francisco will change, but I'm afraid the rest of the country might become more like San Francisco rather than the other way around.