Nobody goes downtown in San Francisco on Sundays - especially on Fathers Day. I love it on Sundays: no traffic, free parking, you can even play frisbee on the streets!
I have been to San Francisco six times in my life. Because of my age and my health I cannot travel.If I could I would go back to SF in a heartbeat.Thanks for the fine presentation.
I noticed lots of out of town plates over the past several months. Texas and Florida being the most, but also Nevada, New Jersey, Washington, and Virginia. Something is going on.....
A lot of Floridians and Texans are scoping out San Francisco real estate because of its moderate climate. They're trying to escape the heat and humidity and encroaching climate change in their home states.
Yeah, I've had a bunch of the people who moved to "work from home" from tropical and mountainous place move back. After the financial industry returned everyone to the office, it seems that it's tech's turn. So naturally everyone's coming back to keep their jobs.
Beautiful City! Love San Francisco and wish I could live there. FYI, if you just would have walked to some of the neighborhoods directly to the south, it's a completely different scene, especially during Gay Pride month on a Sunday. No one goes to downtowns on a Sunday at 10 am, let alone on Father's Day. Accordingly, this video has a very biased point of view. The truth is San Francisco is safe. It has fantastic infrastructure, natural beauty, unique architecture and temperate climate. No wonder tourists and the wealthy flock there.
Nice perspective. Foolishly, I was expecting to see drug addled Tranq zombies or smash & grab crime sprees on every corner. I've been to SF 3 times and loved it. This from a Midwest farm boy.
Basically, if you don't deliberately go to the Tenderloin and don't try to streetpark an obvious airport rental car with luggage and backpacks in the trunk/back seat then you will be 100% fine. SF is really not a violent crime hotspot. Yes, there's been an increase in non-violent crime, thefts, etc. But it's not really a problem if you stay away from the bad neighborhood and don't leave obviously valuable luggage visible in a car.
SF is still beautiful , Grand , clean and so much better infrastructure compare to where I live , the US just have to sort it out their political climate among themselves , it's up the their people to decide whether to make the US great again or they will all going down the drain dragging the world with it at the same time .
There's huge Office Buildings all over the country going half empty or worse what's your point? This is a Sunday, Father's Day of all, at 10 a.m. in the morning? Come on man. Good grief. There's all kinds of companies giving flextime for their workers to work from home most of the week. And I'm pretty sure literally thousands of them are not going to be downtown San Francisco on Sunday Father's Day at 10:30 a.m.😂😅
@@antoniahamilton3201 hahaha.. you know it's funny seeing Americans labeling different opinions as right/left, or commie (if he is a Chinese like me), or "Russian" if he is a Russian (To Americans, that word is offensive already). Jeez, that's so naive, it's like looking at an Apple IIe here..
@@antoniahamilton3201 my point? Anyone who thinks SF or any parts of California are in trouble would be just labelled as "right wing", but not addressing the problems. Big corps and retail shops left SF, crime rate soars, homeless, druggies.. we can't just sweep it under the rug and point finger at others. That is why US is declining rapidly. SF was nice in the 80's and early 90's.
Hear you loud and clear, two so called right wing bloggers who appear regularly on my timeline are spewing bile on what still is a beautiful city (one name ends with 'leo', the other 'hat'). You'd swear downtown SF was the only US city with a fentanyl crisis. Keep up the good work Mr Stroll, appreciate your videos, will be back to visit again
Sorry but not a right wing conspiracy. ABC, NBC, FOX and NBC have all reported that out of 63 metro areas, San Francisco is dead last for its recovery post COVID. You may also reference the record number of stores exiting the downtown area. I promise you that if there was a profit to be made they would stay but sadly things are as bad as reported and about to get worse as the exodus accelerates from here. Also note that federal employees at the Pelosi building are now being advised to work from home indefinitely as a result of the risk to employees entering the building.
I like the quality of your videos. Would you tell me what kind of camera you use? Audio recorder? Do you use the same camera for your driving videos? Thank you keep up the good work…
Look closely at the video. Where are all the homeless people that the rightwing media says are "everywhere" in San Francisco? Look at the sidewalks. Do they look dirty? San Francisco has some of the cleanest sidewalks I have seen in any major city.
There are some homeless in the Tenderloin and on Mission Street around 14th Street. It's nothing compared to other cities. Just the radical right wing media with their "doom and gloom" propaganda, deflecting from all the failed CONservative policies that have destroyed red states.
Lol, the city literally doubled the pressure washing schedule. And it's not like the streets were particularly dirty before this. But hey, at least we're getting something out of the whole Fox News media frenzy 😁😁😁
@@TohaBgood2 LOL! What shit hole do you live in? SFO is safe, clean, vibrant and very expensive. You don't have what it takes to live there, so stay under your slimy rock with the rest of the haters and losers. I'll take San Francisco any day.
Lololol, "Right Wing media"!!!!! Hilarious. Nothing like a sanitized " Left Wing" video! Show the real cesspool SF has turned into, and the mass exodus of businesses and people from it. Voting has consequences.
I'm sorry, but this is not how a deserted, "in-decline" city looks like. You seem to be "surprised" a lot in this video. This looks almost perfectly clean. The streets look obviously pressure washed. The first area that you showed is the most office-heavy part of downtown. People have been criticizing it for being deserted outside of the 9-5 for decades now. They're adding housing there but very slowly so that's bound to be pretty empty during the weekend. The only time that the Embarcadero area gets busy during the weekend is when the farmers market is on at the Ferry Building. The rest of the route is as expected. The closer you get to Powell the busier it gets. The tourists pool in the touristy spots around Powell street. That too is the way that it has always been. Oh, and by the way, tourism in SF is currently at above 80% of pre-pandemic levels. It was 30% in 2021 and 50% in 2022. By next year they expect to surpass pre-pandemic levels. That's why the hotel rooms cost $300 dollars. They're not crazy. They keep the rates at whatever gets them above 80% occupancy. They're at normal occupancy rates but slightly below normal prices for an average year pre-pandemic season. Not completely slammed like they are during major conferences, but definitely nowhere close to empty. I'm afraid that you too have been taken in by the right wing propaganda. Splitting the difference does not work in our media environment. The propagandists know that this is what most people tend to do so they just let an overwhelming amount of propaganda flow in order to bias people closer to their side.
Thank you! I have family in San Francisco, and they too say the same thing. Too much over the top doom and gloom drama made for political reasons from social and news media.
Exactly! Nothing deserted about this, even though it was filmed on a Sunday! SF is gorgeous, hardly in "decline", safe and clean. Only radical right wing nut jobs and those who are jealous spew such rot. Funny how they never mention the really declining cities in red states. Hmmm.......
san francisco is dying for the same reason the malls are, unfortunately. The chinatown mall adapted, which is why it's like 80% restaurants... you can't have a great meal shipped to you on amazon prime
2021 was the year that the most people moved out, the city estimated it at around 55k moved out. I saw at least one moving truck every few days in my neighborhood that year. Last year it slowed considerably, but I think there was still a decline of a few thousand in the city. To give you some context, in 2021 there were a lot of apartment vacancies and rents dropped by about 1/3 compared to 2018-2019. Last year, rents climbed again but not to those highs (maybe about 75-80% of what they were before). Now there are far fewer vacancies and rent is stable at that level. From the looks of it, maybe for the next couple years it will be like this.
It's not really empty and it was never particularly dangerous. SF is one of the safest cities in the US. That's why the crazy Fox News propaganda is so baffling to locals. I still can't help but smirk whenever I see one of those news stories or youtube videos. I can't believe that anyone would fall for this stuff 😁😁😁
The problems are not the same as in the past. In the past the problems were caused by recessions and housing bubbles bursting. Today, the problems are a breakdown of law and order caused by the legalization of theft and reduction of cops and rampant homeless that do whatever they want. It won't improve until law and order is restored.
It's already improved significantly. During the pandemic they completely halted any encampment removal so this stuff spread all over the city. A few months back the started the removals again and herded everyone back to the Tenderloin. Incidentally, that's what Fox News has been capitalizing on. All the homeless and drug addicts have been herded into a tiny neighborhood where all the homeless shelters are located. So now a ton of them that used to be in encampments are all hanging out there. You gotta be careful with outright propaganda outlets. They have no intention of informing, they have another agenda. If you look closely at all those "San Francisco is doomed" videos, you'll see the exact same corner, the same grocery stores shot from 15 different angles at different times a day to make it appear like the mess is a widespread problem. That's hilarious for locals to watch, but does fool some of the out-of-towners 😁😁😁
Which could be accomplished by voting out these liberal, so called "Progressive" demoRAT's. Unfortunately, it won't happen, and this once great city will continue to spiral down the bowl.
I don't think the end is here... but life is short, and I'm not going to wait a decade for the city to heal. I'm done wasting my time and money while simultaneously sacrificing my wellbeing. Bought a property in Upstate NY, moving there soon. It's been real San Fran! I hope you recover one day.
You won't have to wait too long. San Francisco and its surrounding area are already being scoped out by people seeking climate change relief. They're drawn to its moderate weather. Because of this weather, it will be one of the less risky areas to live in. Yes, San Francisco is earthquake prone but the people who are now investing in the city's real estate are coming from states that will see an increase in killer hurricanes, severe flooding and unlivable heat and humidity. They accept that no place is completely safe.
Dude, tourism was at 30% in 2021, 50% in 2022, and at 80% right now. By next year it will be back to 100%. The mayor seems to be getting ever more successful in bullying the Board of Supervisors to deal with the homelessness and crime issues. They can all feel the backlash in public opinion. SF is already pretty much indistinguishable to pre-pandemic times. By next year, it will be better than it ever was but with more and cheaper housing and better public safety than pre-2020. The right wing propaganda will keep trying, but you can't fight gravity.
big city centers around the world are doomed''people have changed since the pandemic' on line shopping anything you want or need in this world is at a click of a mouse. being safe is what the young generation is all about ,staying close to one's neighborhood is key.
@@jealouswitch8872 Lol, so a flag is what "dying" means, huh? How about your Conservative towns having a full twice higher the crime than San Francisco. Is that "dying"?
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Nobody goes downtown in San Francisco on Sundays - especially on Fathers Day. I love it on Sundays: no traffic, free parking, you can even play frisbee on the streets!
It's a biased video.
@@Meyerc-yv2biExtremely. SF is done, courtesy of it's idiot voters.
Can wait for the rail road that will connect SF to LA im definitely going to visit more
I have been to San Francisco six times in my life. Because of my age and my health I cannot travel.If I could I would go back to SF in a heartbeat.Thanks for the fine presentation.
I noticed lots of out of town plates over the past several months. Texas and Florida being the most, but also Nevada, New Jersey, Washington, and Virginia. Something is going on.....
A lot of Floridians and Texans are scoping out San Francisco real estate because of its moderate climate. They're trying to escape the heat and humidity and encroaching climate change in their home states.
Yeah, I've had a bunch of the people who moved to "work from home" from tropical and mountainous place move back. After the financial industry returned everyone to the office, it seems that it's tech's turn. So naturally everyone's coming back to keep their jobs.
It's years ago when I was the last time in SF. I liked this City. I think it's getting much to expensive and so hard to live there
Beautiful City! Love San Francisco and wish I could live there. FYI, if you just would have walked to some of the neighborhoods directly to the south, it's a completely different scene, especially during Gay Pride month on a Sunday. No one goes to downtowns on a Sunday at 10 am, let alone on Father's Day. Accordingly, this video has a very biased point of view. The truth is San Francisco is safe. It has fantastic infrastructure, natural beauty, unique architecture and temperate climate. No wonder tourists and the wealthy flock there.
Nice perspective. Foolishly, I was expecting to see drug addled Tranq zombies or smash & grab crime sprees on every corner. I've been to SF 3 times and loved it. This from a Midwest farm boy.
Basically, if you don't deliberately go to the Tenderloin and don't try to streetpark an obvious airport rental car with luggage and backpacks in the trunk/back seat then you will be 100% fine. SF is really not a violent crime hotspot. Yes, there's been an increase in non-violent crime, thefts, etc. But it's not really a problem if you stay away from the bad neighborhood and don't leave obviously valuable luggage visible in a car.
SF is still beautiful , Grand , clean and so much better infrastructure compare to where I live , the US just have to sort it out their political climate among themselves , it's up the their people to decide whether to make the US great again or they will all going down the drain dragging the world with it at the same time .
There's huge Office Buildings all over the country going half empty or worse what's your point? This is a Sunday, Father's Day of all, at 10 a.m. in the morning? Come on man. Good grief.
There's all kinds of companies giving flextime for their workers to work from home most of the week. And I'm pretty sure literally thousands of them are not going to be downtown San Francisco on Sunday Father's Day at 10:30 a.m.😂😅
Well said. Right-wing bile.
@@antoniahamilton3201 hahaha.. you know it's funny seeing Americans labeling different opinions as right/left, or commie (if he is a Chinese like me), or "Russian" if he is a Russian (To Americans, that word is offensive already). Jeez, that's so naive, it's like looking at an Apple IIe here..
@@alanchanhongkong What's your problem dude? Ha ha. You're looking for a needle in a haystack. Get a life.
@@antoniahamilton3201 my point? Anyone who thinks SF or any parts of California are in trouble would be just labelled as "right wing", but not addressing the problems. Big corps and retail shops left SF, crime rate soars, homeless, druggies.. we can't just sweep it under the rug and point finger at others. That is why US is declining rapidly. SF was nice in the 80's and early 90's.
@@alanchanhongkong The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
This is so different than the city I lived in from 1973 to 2004. And even different than in 2917-19. So beautiful and so empty!!! Where is everyone?
Thanks for putting in street markers in the video.😊
Hear you loud and clear, two so called right wing bloggers who appear regularly on my timeline are spewing bile on what still is a beautiful city (one name ends with 'leo', the other 'hat'). You'd swear downtown SF was the only US city with a fentanyl crisis. Keep up the good work Mr Stroll, appreciate your videos, will be back to visit again
Sorry but not a right wing conspiracy. ABC, NBC, FOX and NBC have all reported that out of 63 metro areas, San Francisco is dead last for its recovery post COVID. You may also reference the record number of stores exiting the downtown area. I promise you that if there was a profit to be made they would stay but sadly things are as bad as reported and about to get worse as the exodus accelerates from here. Also note that federal employees at the Pelosi building are now being advised to work from home indefinitely as a result of the risk to employees entering the building.
I like the quality of your videos. Would you tell me what kind of camera you use? Audio recorder? Do you use the same camera for your driving videos? Thank you keep up the good work…
Thanks, I use a DJI Pocket 2, yes same camera except for some early videos were with a DJI Pocket 1
Look closely at the video. Where are all the homeless people that the rightwing media says are "everywhere" in San Francisco? Look at the sidewalks. Do they look dirty? San Francisco has some of the cleanest sidewalks I have seen in any major city.
There are some homeless in the Tenderloin and on Mission Street around 14th Street. It's nothing compared to other cities. Just the radical right wing media with their "doom and gloom" propaganda, deflecting from all the failed CONservative policies that have destroyed red states.
Lol, the city literally doubled the pressure washing schedule. And it's not like the streets were particularly dirty before this. But hey, at least we're getting something out of the whole Fox News media frenzy 😁😁😁
@@TohaBgood2 LOL! What shit hole do you live in? SFO is safe, clean, vibrant and very expensive. You don't have what it takes to live there, so stay under your slimy rock with the rest of the haters and losers. I'll take San Francisco any day.
Lololol, "Right Wing media"!!!!! Hilarious. Nothing like a sanitized " Left Wing" video! Show the real cesspool SF has turned into, and the mass exodus of businesses and people from it. Voting has consequences.
I'm sorry, but this is not how a deserted, "in-decline" city looks like. You seem to be "surprised" a lot in this video. This looks almost perfectly clean. The streets look obviously pressure washed. The first area that you showed is the most office-heavy part of downtown. People have been criticizing it for being deserted outside of the 9-5 for decades now. They're adding housing there but very slowly so that's bound to be pretty empty during the weekend. The only time that the Embarcadero area gets busy during the weekend is when the farmers market is on at the Ferry Building.
The rest of the route is as expected. The closer you get to Powell the busier it gets. The tourists pool in the touristy spots around Powell street. That too is the way that it has always been.
Oh, and by the way, tourism in SF is currently at above 80% of pre-pandemic levels. It was 30% in 2021 and 50% in 2022. By next year they expect to surpass pre-pandemic levels. That's why the hotel rooms cost $300 dollars. They're not crazy. They keep the rates at whatever gets them above 80% occupancy. They're at normal occupancy rates but slightly below normal prices for an average year pre-pandemic season. Not completely slammed like they are during major conferences, but definitely nowhere close to empty.
I'm afraid that you too have been taken in by the right wing propaganda. Splitting the difference does not work in our media environment. The propagandists know that this is what most people tend to do so they just let an overwhelming amount of propaganda flow in order to bias people closer to their side.
There is an active strategy by Republicans to denigrate San Francisco, Los Angeles and California in general. I wonder why?
Thank you! I have family in San Francisco, and they too say the same thing. Too much over the top doom and gloom drama made for political reasons from social and news media.
This is so well stated!
Exactly! Nothing deserted about this, even though it was filmed on a Sunday! SF is gorgeous, hardly in "decline", safe and clean. Only radical right wing nut jobs and those who are jealous spew such rot. Funny how they never mention the really declining cities in red states. Hmmm.......
@@TohaBgood2 LMAOOOOOOO San Francisco defenders in the massive 2024
It was interesting to walk through streets of San Francisco 😊
san francisco is dying for the same reason the malls are, unfortunately. The chinatown mall adapted, which is why it's like 80% restaurants... you can't have a great meal shipped to you on amazon prime
Quick question. How many number of people *ballpark* do you think moved to San Francisco over the past two years?
2021 was the year that the most people moved out, the city estimated it at around 55k moved out. I saw at least one moving truck every few days in my neighborhood that year. Last year it slowed considerably, but I think there was still a decline of a few thousand in the city. To give you some context, in 2021 there were a lot of apartment vacancies and rents dropped by about 1/3 compared to 2018-2019. Last year, rents climbed again but not to those highs (maybe about 75-80% of what they were before). Now there are far fewer vacancies and rent is stable at that level. From the looks of it, maybe for the next couple years it will be like this.
@@StrollwithMe1 People are moving in now and office space demand is up 10%. Let's get real shall we.
Theres going to be nothing left of downtown SF - where do the locals go to get a variety clothings/shoes, etc?
Probably online, which is why a lot of retail stores are closing. The people that live in the rest of the city still have other shopping areas
Same could be said for most cities. But SF will always be there and has many built-in advantages, like great transportation, that other cities do not.
u cant deny that san francisco and the aerial views are absolutely beautiful, my question is san Francisco safer now that its kinda empty
It's not really empty and it was never particularly dangerous. SF is one of the safest cities in the US. That's why the crazy Fox News propaganda is so baffling to locals. I still can't help but smirk whenever I see one of those news stories or youtube videos. I can't believe that anyone would fall for this stuff 😁😁😁
It's always been as safe as any other city. It's the radical right wing media that's not safe with its lies.
@@TohaBgood2 many ppl see america for its problems rather than its beuaty, america is generally a great country theres no question about that
The problems are not the same as in the past. In the past the problems were caused by recessions and housing bubbles bursting. Today, the problems are a breakdown of law and order caused by the legalization of theft and reduction of cops and rampant homeless that do whatever they want. It won't improve until law and order is restored.
It's already improved significantly. During the pandemic they completely halted any encampment removal so this stuff spread all over the city. A few months back the started the removals again and herded everyone back to the Tenderloin. Incidentally, that's what Fox News has been capitalizing on. All the homeless and drug addicts have been herded into a tiny neighborhood where all the homeless shelters are located. So now a ton of them that used to be in encampments are all hanging out there.
You gotta be careful with outright propaganda outlets. They have no intention of informing, they have another agenda. If you look closely at all those "San Francisco is doomed" videos, you'll see the exact same corner, the same grocery stores shot from 15 different angles at different times a day to make it appear like the mess is a widespread problem. That's hilarious for locals to watch, but does fool some of the out-of-towners 😁😁😁
Which could be accomplished by voting out these liberal, so called "Progressive" demoRAT's. Unfortunately, it won't happen, and this once great city will continue to spiral down the bowl.
Those rainbow flags remind me of Zarqawi's black flags in the streets of Iraq.
I don't think the end is here... but life is short, and I'm not going to wait a decade for the city to heal. I'm done wasting my time and money while simultaneously sacrificing my wellbeing. Bought a property in Upstate NY, moving there soon. It's been real San Fran! I hope you recover one day.
You won't have to wait too long. San Francisco and its surrounding area are already being scoped out by people seeking climate change relief. They're drawn to its moderate weather. Because of this weather, it will be one of the less risky areas to live in. Yes, San Francisco is earthquake prone but the people who are now investing in the city's real estate are coming from states that will see an increase in killer hurricanes, severe flooding and unlivable heat and humidity. They accept that no place is completely safe.
Dude, tourism was at 30% in 2021, 50% in 2022, and at 80% right now. By next year it will be back to 100%. The mayor seems to be getting ever more successful in bullying the Board of Supervisors to deal with the homelessness and crime issues. They can all feel the backlash in public opinion.
SF is already pretty much indistinguishable to pre-pandemic times. By next year, it will be better than it ever was but with more and cheaper housing and better public safety than pre-2020. The right wing propaganda will keep trying, but you can't fight gravity.
big city centers around the world are doomed''people have changed since the pandemic' on line shopping anything you want or need in this world is at a click of a mouse. being safe is what the young generation is all about ,staying close to one's neighborhood is key.
Nyc Still better than san Francisco and busier 😂
Who cares about your adolescent comparing apples to oranges.
Lol, since when is busier better?
pride flag everywhere no wonder san francisco is dying
Lol, did you not watch the video? Which part exactly is "dying"?
@@TohaBgood2 the pride flag everywhere part
@@jealouswitch8872 Lol, so a flag is what "dying" means, huh? How about your Conservative towns having a full twice higher the crime than San Francisco. Is that "dying"?
Democrat run city, what do you expect?