(06-09-2022, 08:00 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: They are at different stages, dimwit. When things get bad enough, people will move out of SF. Until they change their policies, things will get worse. It is the same thing that happened in Detroit and Baltimore, more or less.

Those are very different stories.  Baltimore lost some factories but mostly suburbanized just like Jacksonville and many other cities. There are terrible run down neighborhoods in both places.  
Detroit also suburbanized but also lost people overall due to massive reductions in car factory payrolls.
Detroit, Baltimore, and Jacksonville all have similar stories of dilapidation and white flight.  The white flight was of course due to forced desegregation.  It was still socially acceptable to say that black kids were dumber and the fewer black kids your white kid had in his class, the better off he would be, so, flee to the next town or county over to escape the latest NAACP lawsuit.
None of these stories took place in San Francisco, or Portland, or Seattle.  They're just totally different places with their own history and problems.  And they will remain so.

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