SF stores have closed because their employees are no longer safe. Conferences are leaving SF. Mostly everyone who starts a family leaves SF.
Shoplifting, car break-ins, homelessness, drugs, public defecation, public intoxication, high costs of life. Used needles, empty bottles of alcohol.
There is no reason to be in SF anymore. If you think otherwise is because you've lived there so long that you've lost perspective of what you can acquire with whatever you are paying there.
The authorities in SF are the encyclopedic definition of learned helplessness.
Quick access to many museums, libraries, music institutions, and (for the supposed lack of children) great playgrounds. I spent a weekend with the in-laws in San Ramon, and nobody was outside, playgrounds were barren, and everyone seemed to be at the mall. So I guess I’m saying it’s a matter of perspective, and SF certainly isn’t perfect, but I still think there’s significant upside.
Instead of paying $5000 for a tiny 1 bedroom apartment so you can go to a nice library in SF:
Move to a cheaper place, buy the same books you were interested in borrowing brand new, plus bookshelves, plus a high end reading sofa, and perhaps even pay an actual human to read you the books and you will still would have spent less money. And if the book is not for sale, pay for a plane ticket, visit the library in SF and go back. Again, you would have spent less money.
Regarding the museum, you could move to a cheaper place, and each time you wanted to visit the museum, simply pay for a plane ticket, visit the museum, go back and still spend less money than living in SF.
Regarding the music stuff: move to a cheaper place, hire a musician full time, brand new instruments, a recording studio, and you will still have more money at the end.
Do the math. Living in SF is throwing money down the toilet.
Have fun drinking $50 fruit juice at "Joe & the juice".
Shoplifting, car break-ins, homelessness, drugs, public defecation, public intoxication, high costs of life. Used needles, empty bottles of alcohol.
There is no reason to be in SF anymore. If you think otherwise is because you've lived there so long that you've lost perspective of what you can acquire with whatever you are paying there.
The authorities in SF are the encyclopedic definition of learned helplessness.