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hugh3 on July 29, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Crime Visualization of San Francisco

Most definitely, but you'll never get a Rudy Giuliani figure elected as mayor of San Francisco, at least not in the foreseeable future.

My prediction: sometime in the next 30 years the tech industry will have drifted elsewhere, and San Franscisco will be the new Detroit. Right now it's a mixture of the sublime and the awful, but the sublime can always pack up and move to Portland/Austin/Seattle.

stretchwithme on July 30, 2010 [–]

Most of what is sublime about San Francisco can't move.

But you're right. People in San Francisco don't seem to value public order enough to take the actions required to establish it.

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