A $40 million medical conference has been cancelled in San Francisco because of filth and crime.
San Francisco is filled with homeless camps, open drug use in public areas and crime.
Garbage, drug needles, and human feces are ubiquitous sights and smells on the streets. Just yesterday a local news station ran a story about multiple complaints about a [B]20-pound bag of feces[/B] that was abandoned on the street.
[SIZE=7]San Francisco Is So Expensive, You Can Make Six Figures and Still Be ‘Low Income’[/SIZE]
In the latest sign of the astronomical cost of living in parts of California, the federal government now classifies a family of four earning up to $117,400 as low-income in three counties around the Bay Area.
“It sounds ridiculous, but it’s not,” said Richard A. Walker, a professor emeritus of geography at U.C. Berkeley and the author of a recent book about the tech boom and displacement in the Bay Area. As the tech industry has drawn legions of highly paid workers to the area, home prices aren’t the only thing that has gone up. Transportation, utilities and food are also costly.
“It’s arguably the most expensive city in the country, so what that translates to is really not that much money,” said Ed Cabrera, a Housing and Urban Development spokesman who is based in San Francisco. “Especially with children in an area where properties are considered affordable if they’re going for half a million dollars.”
Americans are getting poor fast. Pure Capitalism is failing. The countries which have embraced moderate capitalism and a mix of social protection (socialism) don’t experience such kind of accelerating poverty and social decay.
Ndio maana epatriates wakipata chance ya kuwork abroad hawakatai. Jungu anakuja hapa Nairobi na mshande yake ya San Francisco, anakodisha 6 bed bungalow Runda for 200,000 or $2000… back home he could only afford a two bedroom apartment for $4000
True story… Kuna expat analipanga rent ya 180k for four years now… I normally ask mbona asibuy plot ajenge mansion kumbe ako yeye haoni big deal 180k in pocket change
Kabisa. Kwanza siku hizi remote jobs ni nyingi sana. American firms are outsourcing tech labour overseas. Kule US mtu anaitisha mshahara ya $120k a year kufanya tu Javascript while out there they can get the same quality devs for half that amount.
sasa ambassador… huyo si ni civil servant tu wa kawaida. Salary yake ikienda sana ni $150k. More or less peanuts in a big city. Investment banker anakusukumia $600k after bonuses per year or much more, na yeye anashikilia mansion bila uoga.
San Francisco ni kwa birrioneas akina Apple and the Google fellows sio kwa hoi polloi. San Francisco ndio silicon valley iko na all manner of research companies and research universities akina Stanford na UC Berkley na hizi ma startups and what not. Na company za ndege akina lockheed. The living standards there are quite high. Lakini huyo mayor mzungu ameangusha mji. There’s a black american taking over. Maybe she’ll do a better job. I imagine an article like this is meant to say, “is she qualified, she’s black you know?”
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