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The day I did the walk we had excellent weather - and it was during the Outside Lands Festival. Most people were out and about along the waterside.

@@baycitywalks7940 So in regular days without any festival it would have been even less foot traffic and traffic in general?

@@captainhighbury1806 It would have been more crowded. Golden Gate Park is in the other direction - where a quarter of a million people gathered for the festival.

Lol, what are you people even talking about? You can plainly see in the video that the city is full of people. He goes from a quiet residential area to downtown and into another quiet residential area. Again, watch the video. There's a ton of people in the tourist hotspots and fewer people in the bedroom communities. Why do you people have to make up crap about San Francisco? What is up with this crazy right wing propaganda campaign?

@@TohaBgood2 I thought so too until I moved and saw how vibrant other cities are now and then I remembered how SF once was. The "quiet" residential area he started out is THE CASTRO. It used to be a gay mecca but even the Castro theater is closed and they built wood lean to shacks on the streets which are now filthy with graffiti and the remaining shops are vandalized every night. Don't even think of locking a bike up..I had 5 bikes stolen and two cars. It is not just mom and pop stores that are boarded up, the big guys are gone as well, like Google, Old navy, Nordstroms.

@@M13x13M Dude, what are you even talking about? I understand that you're trying to justify to yourself why you moved and that you haven't made a giant mistake. But look at the video!!! Where do you see any of that? Where? You can't just believe whatever you like with zero regard for facts. That's brain rot!

@@TohaBgood2 - I used my bike to get around town. My best bike was stolen at noon chained up in front of SFMOMA on Sunday! Maybe you did not notice but most of the stores are boarded up. I ended up having to drive to the nearest stores in Daly City to buy stuff or use Amazon. 60% of the time The BART was delayed because there would be an incident at a station. They had to close the station next to the Main Library because it had incidents 24/7 . What was the point living in the city and paying $8k in property taxes ? Besides my kids moved away to cities that are vital. Compare Chicago's Miracle mile to Market street... you can't. At least there were not lines to get into restaurants anymore. But When I left they were closing at 8:30 rather than 10 PM. Food was mediocre cuz chefs, servers etc have moved away. It is also unbearable to watch people shoplifting and SF allows people to sell stolen goods on Mission and 24 th in the open. The stuff from Walgreens still have stickers saying this item has been stolen. Horrible tragedy happened last month when a friends neighbor's kid was shot in a drive by and now is crippled for life. At least I lived in a safeish neighborhood Bernal heights. But we had a lot of amazon package thief. Search NASA scientist Glitter bombs for the run down on that.

Mark, the Castro Theatre was closed for the pandemic and has since reopened, though under new management. The day I shot this was during the Outside Lands music festival in Golden Gate Park. You can also see that it was amazing weather - which usually means people head to the park or to the beach. I can assure you that the Castro is alive and kicking. What you are referring to as "wood lean-to shacks" are actually parklets that were approved for restaurants during the pandemic so that people could eat and drink outside. People still love them, which is why many haven't been removed - though businesses are now charged a fee by the City since they take up parking areas. San Francisco is far from "filthy with graffiti" as business owners are responsible for removing any graffiti on their property in a timely manner - or they will be fined. Also, Google still has several offices in San Francisco - they occupy a large portion of the old Hills Brothers Coffee building (goo.gl/maps/XE4EqZwPeMZe7uCa7).

It is a ghost town now.

Thank you!

that intersection is notoriously expensive for gas-- the tourists get ripped off there, and a lot of locals too. Not much competition in that area unfortunately, and the even non-Chevron 'discount' station was $4.77 / gal. It's $5.00 / gal even in the outer / suburban neighborhoods as I type this. Thanks for doing the walk, it's nice to counter some of the hype that Market street is a complete wasteland now. It's not good, don't get me wrong, but dystopia isn't here yet.

@user-kb8up3ww4y Yes, that was a mess up on my part. Unfortunate.

I followed the advice of ActionKid from NYC: ruclips.net/video/77t0LKAg13I/видео.html

Thanks Just Walk - I'm still on a learning curve.