Homicide rate is on par with Canada. Is Canada unsafe? I think this shows how 100% safe the vast majority of America is. Any large city is going to score very unsafe by comparison.
Random street corner in SF
Here’s what it looks like at night:
Lots of these hidden gems all over the city even locals don’t know about.
…from the people who like to complain about MY carbon footprint 
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As I pointed out in another thread crime stats are kludgy. There are many confounding factors.
Say 20 folk are murdered by gangs in Redwood City and the bodies dumped in the redwoods. Most are scavenged by animals but four are found by hikers. The cops can figure out that they were likely murdered down the hill but can’t prove it. Twenty Redwood City murders just turned into four murders in unincorporated Woodside.
Then there’s the modern trend of treating the most minor of domestic disputes as acts of “domestic violence.”
Then there’s the tendency of people in high crime areas to not bother reporting crimes.
Talk to people who live in supposedly safe and supposedly dangerous areas and you’ll often get a take on things at odds with official numbers.
Many vistors to the Fab 7x7 find this location to die for…
“What’s more, all of these jobs can be done from home — and there are thousands of open remote opportunities for each role right now.”
Some have been saying this for months. Meanwhile others keep looking at how much VC money is raised by “SF” startups.
Is the article talking about SF startup jobs?
Here’s the search for AI remote jobs on this SF startup job board:
That’s it. 7 hits.
Switch location to SF and there are 6 pages of hits, each page with 25 jobs.
Why on earth would a company advertise remote roles on a job board specific to SF startups? If they are remote, then they want to cast as big of national net as possible.
I keep saying the keywords are “San Francisco startups”.
Startups are different because they are fragile, small, may not have found product market fit yet and thus may need to change directions frequently. Employees don’t have narrowly defined roles and need to communicate beyond their small peer group. They need higher bandwidth communication channels like face to face meetings.
Here’s what Indeed returns if you narrow down the search:
Do you know how job postings work? Remote roles won’t list a city. If they list a city, they are going to require hybrid.
You also just proved your SF AI startups are only a tiny potion of total AI jobs. How on earth is that tiny number of jobs going to fill all the vacant office space? They won’t even make a dent.
https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-states/insights/us-marketbeats/san-francisco-marketbeats
The office vacancy rate is still increasing despite all the hype anytime a new lease is signed.
I don’t live in the suburb.
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“Politicians have talked about the recent interest in San Francisco from artificial intelligence companies. Those we talked with said that while that is a definite positive going forward, those AI companies would take up only a small portion of the millions of square feet of vacant space available.”
Weird. Someone else said that.
“”Right now in downtown San Francisco, we have a vacancy rate of a little over 35% which is the highest that we’ve ever recorded in the history of San Francisco,” says Colin Yasukochi who is an executive director of the tech insights center at CBRE, which focuses on the tech industry and how it affects commercial real estate. Yasukochi says that office vacancy numbers in San Francisco were 3 to 4% pre-pandemic, meaning we’ve seen more than a 30% increase and that trend may continue.”
Yeah, things are great. Highest vacancy rate in history, and it’s still increasing.
Too bad existing commercial space can’t be re-zoned and renovated residential.
It’s already difficult to park in the city. Using up parking lots for housing will only make matters worse. Maybe living in the city gets a little more affordable but you’re trapped there without a car. SF becomes a roach hotel.