Dont worry, everything is perfectly fine according to Mayor Bleed

@larata9

5 ай бұрын

It is because they make millions a day just by cars crossing bridges

@soavemusica

5 ай бұрын

If the name of the Mayor is Bleed, well...the streets ring true to that name. Sad.

@Kingofthehill84

5 ай бұрын

Everything will be on fire? 😅😂

@mikesrandomvideos

5 ай бұрын

isnt is BEAUTIFUL.....wow so lovely.

@mikesrandomvideos

5 ай бұрын

@@larata9 true plus the millions they get from kickbacks from government contract projects. WTF do they care. Look at the change orders on a construction project. bilking the public (That voted for them) and getting money in their other pocket from those projects 10 million dollar project costs the public 100 million. People just dont know.

In San Francisco ... the operative word is ... CLOSED!!!

@deerkeeper

5 ай бұрын

Agreed, but with one exception: open air drug market without prosecution.

@amraceway

5 ай бұрын

@@deerkeeper True capitalism. The USA has fallen on its own sword. Profit before people has its own reward.

@mastershredder2002

5 ай бұрын

@@amraceway Perhaps you should live in Venezuela then?

@amraceway

5 ай бұрын

@@mastershredder2002 What on earth would make you write such a ridiculous comment? Lack of travel to other parts of the world? a feeble understanding of politics? An impoverished upbringing? Poor diet?

@altonpaige2388

5 ай бұрын

Reparations in the form of cash payments to ADOS/FBA would fix this mess in SF

San Francisco got exactly what they wanted and voted for! Congratulations. This city used to be Gorgeous....Very Sad!

@patriciagilliland3206

6 күн бұрын

That is where you are wrong! We the people did not vote for this. Newsom and the Democrats did this.

Newsom is doing mighty fine work .

@chriscoughlin9289

5 ай бұрын

@alexcasey8325 Newsom? Apparently you were living in a cave the previous 35 years - while Venture Capital was running The City’s working class out of town on a rail to Stockton, Modesto and Lodi. Sorry if it offends you that those people don’t feel any burning desire to drive a 200 mile round trip every day to keep the lights on in their former dry cleaner, bookshop, hardware store or cafe in the neighborhoods from which they and their children were exiled. Enjoy that $20 avocado toast, though!

@Electrodexify

3 ай бұрын

Libtrds are getting what they want!

I was born and raised in SF and I am so glad I am taking all my money out of the city and state. Soon the people of SF will reelect the same people that they been voting for, for 30 plus years. No change or progress will come.

@NancyK-cu6xj

5 ай бұрын

I'm sincerely happy for you that you've decided to make a move. I wish you all the best. Crazy times but I'm certain California will soon be unrecognizable. Undocumented illegals are going to continue to pour in. You will never regret your decision.

@dannyn.3539

5 ай бұрын

No progress? But they call themself Progressive! 😂

@masterspin7796

5 ай бұрын

Where you headed?....I am doing the same as we speak...

@BongDonky

5 ай бұрын

Sure makes you miss SF from 70's and 80's.

@frankiecheech5262

5 ай бұрын

​@BongDonky all cities were great in 70s, 80s, 90s now every state and it's politics have turned them to sh*tholes and the leaders don't care about anything but lining their pockets😢 the good ole days are memories 😬

SF used to be the cool place where all the young tech people wanted to live. It is turning into a dump of boarded-up businesses and homeless people living on the streets.

@user-vo9xu8dn1d

5 ай бұрын

SF is the best example on how to miss manage money, property and create bubble society with pie in the sky projects. To that I will add, SF now has a new story it never had before. And it is a dark comedy. But, it wouldn't be SF without a twisted sense of humor. My opinion, SF will revive.

@user-vo9xu8dn1d

5 ай бұрын

That is, the people will revive.

@lewasil

5 ай бұрын

Seattle here saying hello.Or goodbye.....

@Portergetmybag

5 ай бұрын

You used the wrong tense. “Turning” should be “Turned”

@Doty6String

5 ай бұрын

It’s only part of the city. Go to Golden Gate Park, the precedio, the sunset, the Richmond. Still nice. How about PAC Heights

What closes a business faster than no customers? Politicians.

@DaisyChain3339.

5 ай бұрын

Blks.

@Urapunk

5 ай бұрын

​@@DaisyChain3339.Someone has to say it, I'm usually that guy 👍

@stacky512a

5 ай бұрын

good one!

@limelife7457

5 ай бұрын

Nizzle

@theresekirkpatrick3337

5 ай бұрын

Thieves

I used to sell real estate in Contra Costa County. When I had a good month, I would treat myself to a stay at the Clift Hotel, one block off Union Square. I would shop all the wonderful stores, Neiman's, Saks, I Magnin, Gumps and wonderful places to eat lunch. It was clean, elegant, safe and a pleasure to shop. It was the most delightful mini vacation.

@denverdubois5835

5 ай бұрын

Sounds divine! I remember how wonderful Union Square used to be.....

It's unbelievable what is happening in San Francisco and it looks like there's no end in sight.

@user-ek5nl1jc4b

5 ай бұрын

It is very believable, the people there vote for this and love it. Enjoy!

@sailingaeolus

5 ай бұрын

@@misspattifromcali.6955 Me and my many fine children see it as a good thing.

@amraceway

5 ай бұрын

@@user-ek5nl1jc4b It wouldn't matter who you vote for. The USA is a brilliant example of advanced class warfare.

@captseamus

5 ай бұрын

NYC is second on the list

@TheGoodwinlive

5 ай бұрын

It's terrible.

Blackrock and blackstone is going to have a field day buying up San Francisco

@misspattifromcali.6955

5 ай бұрын

I betcha CHINA already has it in escrow.

@policedog4030

5 ай бұрын

From the wiki "Wealth Inequality in the US:" CBO Chart, U.S. Holdings of Family Wealth 1989 to 2013. The top 10% of families held 76% of the wealth in 2013, while the bottom 50% of families held 1%. Inequality increased from 1989 to 2013" So it appears the top 10% can easily afford to just buy up all the Real Estate they want, with virtually no competition from the bottom 50%

@user-vo9xu8dn1d

5 ай бұрын

If so, they better have (literally) Billions of dollars. And, create a campaign to instill confidence in people to reinvest. If not, they will use to old methods that got SF into the fix that it is in. And they will cry, "What happened? Why didn't it work.?" I have my own ideas about how to pull SF out of the dump that it is in. But, it will not be the aggressive/aggression that developers used in the attempt to 'Gentrify' the city. All I can say, I'll try it and see.

@rayc.8555

5 ай бұрын

That is their plan. After the crash the Chinese will come in and clean up the drugs and crime and the city will be theirs.

@kirbywaite1586

5 ай бұрын

That is what " blockbusting" actually used to mean.

When an entire city becomes skid row.

@chriscoughlin9289

5 ай бұрын

@jeesmith99 Entire STATE more like. And the surfing, skiing , diving, kayaking, hiking, biking and climbing utterly sucks, too. Top to bottom. Tell all your friends. Thanks

@tylertyler82

5 ай бұрын

Yes please stay away. There’s too much traffic already.

@metalmike570

3 ай бұрын

I remember an ad decades ago; Rice A Roni the San Francico treat. And when I was a kid a show would come on with Michael Douglas in it called The Streets Of San Francisco. RIP old days...

At least the paint store is doing alright!

@denverdubois5835

5 ай бұрын

Underrated response LOL

@xoxoxoxoxo7997

5 ай бұрын

Lol

@JHVT44

4 ай бұрын

Something tells me they don’t actually pay for their paint….

@robertobaggio2182

3 ай бұрын

lol you think these thugs pay for the paint?

Compare to today the opening of The Doris Day Show when she's dancing around the happy streets of downtown San Fran. If they shot it today, she'd be dancing around turds, leaping over nodding junkies, and tripping over tent lines.

@zeldadesantiago6974

5 ай бұрын

Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂

@jambimc7516

5 ай бұрын

And get mugged at gun point right after

@user-wy6py5gw4y

5 ай бұрын

This is sad

@sonicleaves

5 ай бұрын

Yes 😂

Brutal, just Brutal. Mission Street has been destroyed!

@esdeozzy

5 ай бұрын

In SOMA but not in the Mission, Bernal Heights, Excelsior or DC

@nereidatorres7613

5 ай бұрын

HORRIBLE JUST HORRIBLE WHAT MY EYES ARE SEEING. IT HAS BEEN DESTROYED TURN IN TO TRASH. PEOPLE HAVE NO RESPECT FOR PUBLIC PROPERTY. WRITEING AND DRAWING ON THE WALLS. IT MAKES ME SICK TO SEE WHAT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE HAVE DONE TO MY BELOVED S.F.

@Brentaaron300

5 ай бұрын

😢...I loved this city in the 80 's....the bad criminal behavior was being allowed starting then😢

@lolatu4402

5 ай бұрын

I was in SF last in 2019. Mission street was full of shops and restaurants. I used to visit friends there and the occasional business convention. There was plenty of homeless then, but nothing that bothered me too much, as I've lived in bad neighborhoods most of my life. I won't go to SF for any reason now. Looks like an absolute hell hole.

@malcolmnicoll1165

5 ай бұрын

The entire city has been destroyed.

looks like it has been vacant for 20 years. But only a few years max. just totally in denial about the problem. Thank the mayor and Newsome for contributing to all these closures.

Leo, nobody believes me when I tell them what you show us in your videos. But I've seen it with my own eyes, through yours. Thank you for showing us the truth. Please be safe!!!!

@8bitdragoninstall182

5 ай бұрын

Those people that don’t want to see are part of the problem and voted for this.

What's astonishing is this is just the beginning of the collapse..Much worse is coming in my opinion. As much as I appreciate what you are doing, I hope you are planning to get out of there!

@ruthnolan13

5 ай бұрын

Yes, and everyone is fleeing to the CA Deserts, and this area is getting ruined now.

@thearch1tect249

5 ай бұрын

@@ruthnolan13 That is so sad to me Ruth. Everyone talks Shlt about California but I am not one of them. It's sad to me because I know most are good people and many are suffering. You still are people and my fellow country men and women!!

@sailingaeolus

5 ай бұрын

@@ruthnolan13 I'm in Vegas. They come here too...and Utah...and Colorado...and Tennessee...etc.

@mahavira108

5 ай бұрын

​@@sailingaeolustaking their politics with them

@DarrellT007

5 ай бұрын

Please pray for the good people still left in this country. Pray for redemption. 🙏🙏🙏

These cities will not recover from the loss of business

@helladankseedco.2411

5 ай бұрын

SF officials think they will replace the businesses that left with their own startups, just watch.

@maverickbull1909

5 ай бұрын

It will. SF has always been a boom and bust town. Read a history book. The techies ruined it for everyone when it was great then left after they made it impossible for anyone to afford it. I’m glad they’re leaving. Now, the people can rebuild a city for the people. And once it’s hot again the vulture yuppies will return to pillage again. It happened during the gold rush too. Its a cycle.

@chriscoughlin9289

5 ай бұрын

Yawn. Some of us have been here long enough to remember a Market Street FILLED with empty high rises during Feinstein's first term. HUNDREDS of teenaged punk rock squatters filtering through the old Hamm's vats down on Bryant St. - daily. My (universally) marginally employed friends and I - circa 1979 - would've laughed in your face if you had climbed out of your Delorean fresh from 2004 with some Emerald City tale to tell. Everybody loves to tell themselves that THEY ALONE are living in that pivotal cultural moment. The tipping point. Me? I was too young for the the days of the Barbary Coast, Allen Ginsberg reading at Gallery Six, Miles at the Blackhawk, QMS at the Fillmore, the Acid Tests... So I'm not qualified to render a verdict on any of that. But apart from those? Nobody who's passed through on my watch has proven themselves as any sort of Nostradamus about the long term fate of this town.

@maverickbull1909

5 ай бұрын

of course they will. SF is a boom n bust town.

@chriscoughlin9289

5 ай бұрын

@@maverickbull1909 Spot on👍 Much as I would like to believe all these hysterical comments herald the return of the $5 Sandwich at the Submarine Center in West Portal, $5 Bogart triple features at the Parkside Theatre, X at the Mabuhay Gardens and my $500/mo. 3 bdrm flat in Cole Valley... After 45 years in this town I know better than to arrogantly believe that I lived through THE pivotal era of SF history. And I say this as a person who saw The Clash play their first gig in the city at Temple Beautiful - not 3 months after Jonestown. And like Moscone/Milk and Jonestown and AIDS and October '89 - Anybody that tells you that they know what's waiting around the next corner in this town is selling something they found out in a pasture somewhere.

I don’t see San Francisco recovering. It’s a shame It never used to be like this. Thank you for sharing. I haven’t been in so long.

@ChrisCarlin-is8wv

5 ай бұрын

Well people said the same thing about Detroit and it has comeback incrementally although it has take four decades. Many parts are still devastated though. You can never tell I guess.

@albertinsinger7443

5 ай бұрын

If you vote for the Democratic Party. Newsom and his gang you get this and worst to come. If you vote for the Republican Party you will get smart business people who will turn this around. Can be done easily with the right laws and right attitude.

@johnhopkins6731

5 ай бұрын

We've still got a long way to go to fix progressives demented minds. Until the schools are fixed theres going to be more and more wackos.

@RalphDonner-yt1tk

4 ай бұрын

@@ChrisCarlin-is8wv I guess it's that tunnel blindness. Like our human brains doesn't want to work hard and consider other elements that influence economics. If you need evidence for a downturn and an upswing, look at what was depicted in the murals at Coit Tower AND consider that was a time when conservative Catholicism ruled the city. This dude, @METAL Leo, I don't know his motive, but it's seems pretty damn convenient to profit off a hot topic rn (just sayin') I live two blocks from the official TL boundary. It is generally safe as a male, but then again, growing up in rough areas, I ain't no Baby Back B......

So diverse so inclusive

I'm a native San Franciscan born and raised here back in the 1980s I use to buy my burritos from El Faro during my lunch break, also the Walgreen's store on 16th and Mission was at that location for many years and I grew up a few blocks away, and as for me I didn't vote for none of these city politicians who are in office!

@whatadollslife

5 ай бұрын

El Faro was the bomb

@jamesolivercalip2587

5 ай бұрын

Pepito's had better burritos

@MotherGunner

5 ай бұрын

If only the other "latinx's" did the same, guey. Always voting Blue.

@Happy-Honkey

5 ай бұрын

You got what most of the city voted for. CA has gone to hell. I’m in sac it’s getting bad here as well.

@chriscoughlin9289

5 ай бұрын

Me too - apart from the native bit - since I washed ashore here in '79 from LA as a 17 year old. I rented an entire 3 bdrm unfinished basement flat as a darkroom space a few doors down from Busy Bee Market - for $200/month. Haunted the 500, the Albion and the Dovre - back when there were still framed 8 x 10" photos of Bobby Sands and the nine other Maze hunger strikers behind the bar. If you've been here that long, then - like me - you were here to watch two generations of working class neighborhoods get completely gutted of every sheet rocker, painter, printer, bookseller, teacher, bartender, furniture refinisher and mom and pop drycleaner. And see them run out of town on a rail by Big Tech. So... were you thinking that what the children and grandchildren of those people - who were once the bedrock of the Mission and North Beach and Miraloma Park and Vis Valley and the Outer Sunset - REALLY need is a steady stream of Republican leadership that would REALLY free the hands of guys like Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg? Because - hey, we didn't quite manage to ENTIRELY hand them the keys to the place over the last 30 years? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Love the doom loop videos. Keep up the great work. The mainstream media doesn't want you to watch this.

@LeoMetalTraveler

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

@chriscoughlin9289

5 ай бұрын

Me too - hoping for a 25 percent population decline statewide, actually. And the return of the $7 sub sandwich. Don't feel you have to confine your exodus to SF either, folks. Ojai? Encinitas? SLO? Chico? Placerville? ALL utter hellscapes. Tell your friends. Don't let the door hit ya in the ass, carpetbaggers.

@oncho1960

5 ай бұрын

Bien hecho 👏

I still cannot believe these videos! None of these areas look anything like they once did. Thank you to Leo for showing us.

I appreciate your independent journalism, Leo. It’s needed in times like these. ❤

I watched the movie “Man’s Favorite Sport” which shows San Francisco in the early 60’s.How far that city has fallen.

Wow it looks so different from what it used to be. Shocking 😳

I used to live in San Rafael and liked to take long walks though San Fransisco. I loved the salt air, tall buildings, the hustle of the streets. Sad to see it gone.

I used to work all over the city. I retired at the end of 2020. I saw this coming back then. Leo, great job showing this to everybody!

The Old San Francisco Mint at 5th and Mission was opened for business in 1874. It was the only financial institution that survived the Great San Francisco Earthquake & Fire of 1906. Not sure it will be able to survive the devastation currently devouring this once great city.

@anderander5662

5 ай бұрын

When they do away with currency it will be moot

For about 5 years, many years ago, I used to work right at 1st and Mission-all of those businesses I used to frequent and patron are all gone and vaporized. It’s amazing and heartening to see that the mightly little Patrick & Co. is still operating. One of the best stationary and writing implement stores in the city. Crazy disappearing times we are living in.

@johnhopkins6731

5 ай бұрын

Yes, bought many drafting pencils there.

@denverdubois5835

5 ай бұрын

The usual suspects aren't interesting in writing implements. They don't know how to write and they don't care. Probably the only reason Patrick & Co. is still open. It has no thug appeal.

@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese

8 күн бұрын

Consider the idea that anything that makes you not want to go outside (mass crime, disease, homelessness) is good for a business like Amazon, Doordash, or Uber. Just a thought

I was there in the 1990s and early 2000's. It was all hustle and bustle! Electricity in the air!

It turns out when you ban building more homes in your city for half a century, businesses have a hard time staying open. SF needs to vote out all those politicians who put up all that red tape. It's dooming the city.

When I used to walk these streets in the 80's & 90's every place was open and there were so many people on the sidewalks you could barely have place to walk.

Moved out recently, got tired of staying in my 300sq foot space since i had nowhere close by to go to anymore😢 Not worth the high rent anymore!

Wow just ten years ago this was a area I frequented. Amazing how quickly it deteriorated like a war happened.

I really enjoyed your video of the city. Your right San Francisco is nothing like i remember it. I grew up in San Francisco . Mission street was out hang out. Back in the day. It was so much fun. Shopping and eating at the local resturants. What happened it is totally changed. I'm glad i left the city in 1996. Thats when the rent started to go way up high. Well the only thing left are the memories.

Mr Leo, your style, your originality , your presentations have earned you a gold star on the walkway of the internet --- simple and poignant.

Looks like Hope and Change and Build Back Better

I grew up there and it saddens me deeply to see what's been happening 😢

I was born and raised in the SF Bay Area. I left for Nevada 9 months ago and have no regrets. I tell people San Francisco is becoming Detroit with better views. It's sad to see that prediction coming more and more true, each time I go back there.

I appreciate your videos, it's more than just walk thru, it's a valuable historical record.

Café “La Boheme…” Central American Refugee Program… such a beloved and distant life of young days. I used to sing at many places there. Ohhhhhh, we grow old and the word leaves us behind. This *hurts.*

It is so valuable of you to document this. Thank you. Sorta sad to see the elaborately outfitted Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's bar closed ... oh well... i haven't been to the city since Covid, anyway.

@LeoMetalTraveler

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening and for your input 2019 was the city’s last gasp… nothing to see here after that

A graveyard. Thank You, Leo, for Your great, although sad, documentation. 🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏼

This is excellent citizen reporting, keep up the good but sad work.

I live across the bay. I've been shopping now and then in San Francisco for 50 years, and believe me, the prices always have been higher in San Francisco .

Whats great about this is when Gavin runs for president, whether it is this year or in 4 years, he cannot deny what he did to this once beautiful city.

@ccirish4519

5 ай бұрын

Yes he can deny it and the idiots who live in California will buy it and vote for him again

And guess what? 95% of the people who used to live in S.F. have moved en masse (along with people from L.A.- those who can afford it) to the So Cal desert - Palm Springs, Joshua Tree - where I live, and it is insanely crowded out here now, housing prices skyrocketing, and getting more so by the day. Trouble is, they are turning this into a city.

@briankoch1121

5 ай бұрын

Same with Phoenix AZ, it’s so vibrant, tons of packed restaurants and shops, it’s amazing how the liberals in CA just don’t give a sh*t what happens to their cities

The trash and paint scrawls are so NYC! It's just like they're twins!

Maybe enforcing laws is the kindest thing we can do for those making poor choices. The threat of a loss of personal agency might be enough to keep some from going down a dark path.

Every store in San Francisco is closed. That is so awesome. 😂

When ConJob 19 had zero pushback - welcomed in lefty strongholds - they were over and done 🔥

@suppylarue220

5 ай бұрын

you know it, we know it, too bad they are blind to know anything.

@pc8134

5 ай бұрын

You could still fly, go to the store, and so on. But somehow standing in line to vote was going to be super extra dangerous and risky.

@suppylarue220

5 ай бұрын

@@pc8134 this coming time around they're doing amputations.......

@stayfree870

5 ай бұрын

All part of The Great Reset. Event 201 & John Hopkins University was preparing for it in October 2019. CV19 was spreading in the US in the summer of 2019. Spain found CV19 in their stored frozen sewer water in March 2019.

@suppylarue220

5 ай бұрын

@@stayfree870 long before 2019. 9/11 was the impetus for the new century as a test to see how far things could be pushed. certain "stuff" was carried unknowingly by tourists to Italy, New York, LA, and other locations during late 2019. we haven't seen anything yet! wait until the election come up. wait until groceries double in price again, wait until your dollar disappears! hehehe....😃

What a shame. Thanks for taking the time to walk these streets and show what it's really like.

I haven’t been home to California in a couple years and even longer since I’ve been to San Francisco. I can’t believe that is what Mission St looks like.

A city in denial. There can be no recovery nor resurgence until after there is awakening and capitulation.

I remember when businesses were thriving before 2020, as people also took it for granted back then. Such a disgrace happening in many U. S. cities.

@edprestoza4099

5 ай бұрын

A d shameful

It’s so sad, be fore I had my own kids, my mom and me would walk the Mission district and have so much fun. Now no way, it will take long to fix, for now residents of Mission be safe❤

Enabling self destructive behavior is not a path to success.

That looks like the 16th/Mission B.A.R.T. Station entrance, just to think what was spent on *world class* transit in S.F. (California as a whole) the promise for transit corridors was economic growth, vitality, vibrancy… I know SF well - they blame the tech bros for this and everything else they don’t like.

Thanks Gavin. Great job

San Francisco was never able to recover after the pandemic and most tech workers moved out of San Francisco because it was too expensive to live there. Also a lot of tech companies didn’t require thier employees to come back to the office

This is what build back better looks like 😂

Ist wie eine Geister Stadt!!😊

Thank you for a very informational video as I grew up in The Bay Area for over 35 years and I used to bartend in San Francisco. This truly breaks my heart how the People running the State of California have turned San Francisco into a 3rd world country!!!

Thanks Leo for putting the facts on the table, You are doing a great job.

Thx Metal for showing the world these things and most importantly for showing other Californians. Being from L.A. I used to travel to SF all the time in 00's. Back then you could walk freely in almost every district at any hour and the city was so amazing, L.A. for that matter as well. The height of Cali was from the 00's to 2012. So sad but we can get it back. More people need to wake up.

@chriscoughlin9289

5 ай бұрын

@chuckcantu8889 00’s - 12? My native working class South Bay had been getting utterly raped for DECADES by the turn of the Millennium. You missed the extinction of the workingman’s So Cal beach town by AT LEAST 25 years. Newsflash: it wasn’t a bunch of marginally employed hippie surf rats that drove a stake through the heart of the birthplace of ‘laid back’

The dude at the end is a legend.

"That's the only thing that remans, the tent" a very sad but true statement, Business driven out yet the tent stays... so so wrong in many ways.

BUILD BACK BETTER!

Thanks for the tour. Been a while since I've been down that part of town. Sad to see how far the city has fallen.

Midtown Manhattan has blocks of boarded-up retail now, and getting worse. All anyone does anymore is go to restaurants and bars. Not much else to do in ol' 'Fun City'. Scary.

Nice job with the camera work Leo.

Thank you for honest reporting.

Really an excellent job. I like the nice clean camera work and your knowledge about what used to be there. Of course it's all so depressing.

@LeoMetalTraveler

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Around 2012/13 my son had a chance to transfer with his job to SF. He was just out of college so I took a couple of days to help him look for a apartment or room to rent. Single apartments were a no go so we setup around 10 appointments for rooms to rent. We actually had to interview with the existing tenants that had a long list of applications. I remember walking out of one interview with some hot shot guys and telling my son “I think we nailed that one”. I think we got one call back and he decided not to transfer there.

I mean "everything in ...... Is closed" almost literally true. Not sure why people cannot accept the fact who they voted for spectacularly failed. Mind boggling.

The citizens of San Francisco voted for this!

That's crazy! I'm a native SF. I used to work at PG&E and JP Morgan Chase, so I am very familiar with that area. They'll (politicians) wil continue to blame it on COVID but the reality is that the City has been in decline for years due to laxed drug policies and coddling criminals. It will take EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP (Mayor and Board of STUPIDvisors) to really see change. Both are weak and will not stand up to these syrupy, left leaning, anti-business, activists, who love increasing taxes, thereby driving out businesses, tourism, law abiding citizens, etc. It's sickening. I do believe that the City can come back, but it would take massive changes and budget cuts to social services. In addition, they are not ready to have the hard conversation about the violence and crime in the City, which must be met with force by the police, the DA's office and Judges with harsher sentencing guidelines. People here are in denial and refuse to admit that their ideas are wrong and not working. They think they can just tax, tax, tax and add more fees to solve the money problem but that's not it. And as a result, people are LEAVING and taking their money with them.

Leo: Macy's has just announced the closure of 150 stores, including San Francisco.

Remember how between 2014 to 2018 it use to be fires on different business on mission between 22 thru 17th That was start on the high rent on businesses so they had no choice

when I met my wife she was living in the Mission. it was a tough but cool place. it looks post apocalypse now

is anyone in SF surprised by this? obviously stores will move out when shoplifting merchandise under 950 dollars in value is only considered a misdemeanor. and if there are no stores, other businesses like restaurants and cafes are likely to move out too due to decreased traffic in the area and probably falling victim to theft themselves. I feel bad for any SF residents who didn’t vote for these laws but i have no sympathy for any SF residents who did and I pray that they stay right where they are in SF to live in the hell they have created.

Great content METAL LEO

@LeoMetalTraveler

5 ай бұрын

@johnnypham2850 always!

I hope you're safe walking through all that, Metal Leo. I'd be too scared to do that. The sad part is nobody around there even cares. They all seem young so they've probably never seen these street look any different. When this decay is brought to Newsom's attention he just laughs. As long as politicians get their paycheck nothing matters to them.

It used to be prestigious for the RE Brokers to have their names on the For Lease signs. Now they probably don’t even want be the listing agent due to the costs. Another great video Leo.

While sky high rates of vagrancy and larceny are driving businesses and residents out of the city - the SF City Council spent their time passing a resolution demanding Israel to cease fire in Gaza. They then congratulated themselves by dancing to drum music. This actually happened.

And now the tax base is completely gone.

Hey Metal Leo. Another sad but great video. It really shows what no one else wants to be seen. I am actually visiting in Central Valley and we are going to stay a couple nights in S.F. I do know the number one thing is "do not leave anything anywhere". It's crazy how quickly things go bad with the vandalism and the tagging. It will be so difficult for the city administration to get things under control. They have denigrated the police so bad that no one has any respect for authority. I think the only way it will get better is to use extremely harsh practices which will not go down well with a lot of vocal people. If we see you downtown filming I'll be sure to say hi.

New York City is soon to look like this 😮

Looks like things have improved. The tents are gone.

@garyballard179

3 ай бұрын

No stores to beg or steal from, no crowds to panhandle...

It has been crazy seeing all these things happening..... Keep up doing a great job!❤😊much love and light to you

@LeoMetalTraveler

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, I will, NEW video comes out today at 1 PM EST

@irinadumitru9088

5 ай бұрын

​@@LeoMetalTraveleryou re very welcome Leo!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought corporate chains, luxury retail and businesses in general bring in revenue for the city in a variety of ways, coupled with highrises, condos, hotels, corporate offices, etc which was all part of the whole gentrification wave for years. So WHY would the politicians and powers that be allow things to completely fall apart and drive business, tourists and tenants out when that drastically affects the bottom line aka THE REVENUE. Isn't that what these people are all about in the first place? Why would you not protect you and your cronies influx of profits? It makes absolutely no sense. I'm not standing up for gentrification, I'm just pointing out this insane paradox.

@NA-oo4ls

5 ай бұрын

Politicians want votes, not city revenue. As long as the people that remain vote for them, they’re good.

Nobody says...CLOSED Know... better than Leo...?

I think the rent is probably a good deal now. I’m thinking about opening a fine restaurant on Mission. Leo do you think I’ll have good luck with that 🤣🤣

@LeoMetalTraveler

5 ай бұрын

good luck with that! 😁

I have vague memories of the spots you recorded. I use to bike all over SF, 10-15 years ago, but stopped for reasons related to the video.

That's my old hood; 1st and Folsom. Short sold my loft in 2009; moved to the East Bay suburbs and bought a SFR in foreclosure. My house now is worth 250% more; and my old loft in SF is worth about the same as it was 15 years ago. Sweet revenge from my mean neighbor who said I had to move out of the City and move to the East Bay. Thanks for the videos Leo.

The stores on the ground floor of those office buildings are empty because most of the offices are empty.

City was so Beautiful , thank you Democrats.

Great video, as always.

Another outstanding video, Leo! Please show us Haight Ashbury, the old hippie area.