Epoch Times - Here's Why Everybody Thinks Of Leaving San Francisco  #californiainsider #sanfrancisco #tonyhall
Aired: 2023-10-24
Duration: 00:52

[00:00:00]  San Francisco was glorious.
[00:00:01]  I first went to San Francisco in 1964.
[00:00:04]  I had done a lot of traveling around, working in different cities.
[00:00:07]  There was no place as beautiful, benevolent, and whose people were more alive.
[00:00:12]  I've raised my seven children there.
[00:00:13]  I love the city, the culture, everything about it, more than the way it's going today.
[00:00:17]  What's happening today is it's on an accelerated decline.
[00:00:21]  The problems are manmade.
[00:00:22]  We've got an abnormal amount of street crime.
[00:00:25]  It's in your face.
[00:00:26]  Corporations and businesses can no longer make a living.
[00:00:30]  Nordstrom, Target, CVS, Walgreens, their profit margin is very little.
[00:00:35]  And when you start stealing, they're saying, look, we'd rather not operate in an area where we're not going to make any profit.
[00:00:40]  That's what's happening between crime, the homeless on the streets.
[00:00:44]  Not that they're the cause of all the crime, but the very fact they're present is deterring people from coming.
[00:00:49]  Corporations don't want to deal with that, so they're leaving the city.