In SF you get robbed by both the city officials and the street criminals. Don'tbblame the businesses for leaving when you create the conditions that make them want to leave.
um... no, they aren't the one's doing the robbing dude. It's the corps doing the robbing, leaving the rest of society with crumbs to quarrel over. They own the real estate, they raise the rent and cost of living, they buy elected officials, they buy policy decisions, they get tax incentives/subsidies/etc, they push to redirect public school funding to charter schools. All to maximize profit. Musk wants lower waged workers, less worker protections and more tax handouts-Texas offered him that.
Democratic policies caused this and people want to vote for Kamala Harris. You want American to be like Oakland and SF? I’m a democrat btw, I’m not voting.
you voted for the democrats. You will do it again for the presidency to keep the USA in steep decline. A woman who got her way to the top by sleeping with the right Democrat.
Dont blame elon musk for this, blame the politicians in California you voted into offices for these things that are happening. This is the results of terrible run leadership in the government of California.
They can't HELP but blame the company. These are progressive liberals who believe that their role in life is to tell everyone else what to do. To admit that their social and economic policies might be flawed would result in an existential crisis for them.
What does crime have to do with X's revenue? It's an excuse for him to do what he was planning to do. He wants low taxes and low salaries. Texas provided that for him. It's that simple. Nothing more, nothing less.
The police got the message loud and clear and will provide the level of service the voters wanted and called for. As the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for because you might get it.
Imagine the tax revenue that has been lost! SF seems to be in a death spiral. How bad will it have to get before people vote for something different? I never thought they’d let it get this bad.
No, they don't want to pay taxes nor the SF salaries. Ironically, it's these corps which prevent the city from investing in communities that created the problems y mention above. They own the housing, they raise the prices to make more profit, they make living conditions worse, they push for defunding public schools, they push for redirecting tax dollars to their neighborhoods. This is the result.
@@gregorymilla9213 Moved my sister into the Bay area around eleven years ago. We moved her out last year. Its like some Eastern European third world nightmare now. Couldn't believe just how bad the entire area looked. Pretty sad. I used to spend every free moment up there when I was in the service in the early and mid 90s. You would have to pay me to go back now.
If there was any silver lining from 2020-2022, it's that we found out that some companies can be run from anywhere. Locating yourself in a crowded, unsafe, and trendy area is expensive and unnecessary.
Well…that won’t happen. They’re trying to collect a check ya know…if they can destroy the local economy by pushing ideological policies that don’t work in real life, all the better.
Did I hear it correctly? The guy opened a comedy club & cocktail lounge in SF close to X's former HQ in 2024. He didn't know what's happening to SF in the past few years?
Yeah, wild. He never questioned why his lease rate was so cheap or why the area was vacant of “paying customers” before he moved in. The guy sounds like an idiot. The City has been doing its best to drive away business. He’s next and doesn’t even know it, but blames Musk 😂
Many of the employees that worked in downtown SF are now working in San Diego, Miami, Mexico City, Austin to name a few where the quality of life is much better.
@@reempire888 I was going to name another city in Mexico that was at recently however, I didn’t want to give more Bay Area people any ideas. That city was insane, people from all over the world, working there having a good time. Food, laughter and safety.
Forget any part of Mexico or any Latin American country. South Florida is where all global companies go to set up their LATAM headquarters or business in Latin America. The corruption, fraud, and crime is far too much to tolerate.
No, the people working in SF aren't moving to Texas to work-they're getting laid off. Musk is moving to get lower paid workers, with less worker protections, less regulations, cheaper real estate and tax handouts from Texas. These corps run the country, things are the way they are because they insist on enriching themselves over the well being of society.
Funny thing is, Liberals HATE comedy. It shows how ludicrous their ideals really are. One can only laugh when pointing out the truths of the last 4 years.
Businesses create cities. Businesses create economy. Businesses also fail cities If San Francisco was just a town with peope living there in houses without any businesses, those houses would have zero value. That’s the simple version of the economic ecosystem.
"Tax breaks" aren't the problem; high crime & bums defecating & urinating in the streets in broad daylight are the problem. If the city feels it has to give businesses "tax breaks" to incentivize them to stay, then that indicates there's a much bigger problem involved.
Funny how people who have no job skills, collect welfare and live in rent controlled apartments, have to resort to blaming people with actual skills for all their problems.
Why on earth did you think it was a good investment to open a club/restaurant in SF in the current climate and leadership? "But U-Haul was charging such nominal fees to rent trucks moving in to the city..."
This has nothing to do with Covid. Covid is nothing more thanthe catch-all ready-made cop-out excuse for people who can't/won't think about an issues deeply enough to see the underlying issues involved to solve the problem.
The Covid excuse is so ridiculous. It’s obviously the Liberal/Progressive policies that are routed in delusion. People don’t want Equality of Outcome. Reality wants Merit based success. Also most people don’t want Communism.
They say 38% but Im sure the real numbers are much higher... the numbers they are giving are Democrat numbers which are ALWAYS way off from reality ... couldn't happen to a nicer city
It’s hilarious that people think that space will go to the people in need 😂😂😂😂😂 the people in charge of the city would rather eat all the 💩 off the street before doing that 😂😂😂😂
Why wouldn’t they flee, did anyone know that companies pay a tax for renting an office in SF? In addition, they are assessed a homeless tax. Both these expenses run the companies in the millions with no transparency to where this funds go. It is Only implied that it goes to where its supposed to, but in the mean time, corruption at City hall is at record levels.
The commercial sector is finished, and tax revenues are tremendously reduced. Marauding locusts shall work their way east with no need to feast in the barren landscape of Oakland. Residential communities are easy targets.
I feel bad for this small business person. He thinks someone will move into X's former office space soon. Unfortunately, the exit from S.F. has not stopped. The city leaders and justice systems have created another Detroit. I am part of a new AI startup and S.F. is not on our list of future locations. Not even with 100% free rent.
Many more people and companies will move out. Small businesses should thank their govenor for doing nothing to retain these companies, and yet you still vote for Newsome
The effect on the local economy is devastating. The former Lines Dance Center school a few blocks down from Twitter shut down this year after many years of vibrant life because too many of the afterwork students disappeared after businesses began shutting down.. it's sad.
I just looked at the stores left in SF Center Mall (Now Emporium Center). Looks to be 75% vacant. SF isn't coming back. Also, check out the prices on Zillow of SOMA condos that are going for $1M+ discounts.
Great comments on here. On what the true problem is!! Business are against the wall what is to expect? Someone failed and won't take the responsibility for it!!
Matt Dorsey, it’s not that you need to do a better job. The city needs to clean out all of it. The idea of tax tax tax tax and getting no service for the needs of everyone is now crumbling at your feet. You don’t need to do a better job what you need to do is a superior job. You politicians are all alike. You’re failing at every level. And then you talk about doing a better job. More like you need to clean house from top to bottom, which would require a superior job.
@@lacha608 big for who? SF city budget is 14 billion, Twitter revenue pre elon acquisition was 4 to 5 billion. SF spends anywhere between 1.1 billion (2021) to 2.8 billion in (2016) on homelessness. 70 million is a chump change that corrupt quasi communist city officials are using as conversation piece for NPCs that "city did everything", when in fact they are doing everything in their power to push them out. "gentrified" - isn't valid excuse either. can't please this quasi commies, move in and it is gentrification, move out and it is flight, can't please whichever way you go.
San Francisco is a wonderful city with lots of history, entertainment and food, but far too expensive to live and do business in, add in remote working and there isn't a reason why companies need to keep a physical presence within the city.
In SF you get robbed by both the city officials and the street criminals. Don'tbblame the businesses for leaving when you create the conditions that make them want to leave.
um... no, they aren't the one's doing the robbing dude. It's the corps doing the robbing, leaving the rest of society with crumbs to quarrel over. They own the real estate, they raise the rent and cost of living, they buy elected officials, they buy policy decisions, they get tax incentives/subsidies/etc, they push to redirect public school funding to charter schools. All to maximize profit. Musk wants lower waged workers, less worker protections and more tax handouts-Texas offered him that.
Democratic policies caused this and people want to vote for Kamala Harris. You want American to be like Oakland and SF?
I’m a democrat btw, I’m not voting.
Has nothing 2 do with crime
Pandemic n tec slowdown
When the recruiters start getting layed off then u know what's coming next
you voted for the democrats. You will do it again for the presidency to keep the USA in steep decline. A woman who got her way to the top by sleeping with the right Democrat.
The real estate industry has controlled San Francisco since 1850 .
Capitalism is hard read a book
Dont blame elon musk for this, blame the politicians in California you voted into offices for these things that are happening. This is the results of terrible run leadership in the government of California.
X is now worth 20% of what Elon Musk bought it for, that's why they moved, can't afford SF anymore.
Texas has worse leaderships. Elon laid off most people at Twitter. They a tiny portion of its former self, no real office is needed anywhere.
@@anlam1044 The employees are a tiny portion of what itself. They don't really a real office anywhere
@@anlam1044 ohhhh that's the reason.... 😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe stop voting Democrat if you want this to stop.
Blame the City, not the company X.
X is now worth 20% of what Elon Musk bought it for, that's why they moved, can't afford SF anymore.
They can't HELP but blame the company. These are progressive liberals who believe that their role in life is to tell everyone else what to do. To admit that their social and economic policies might be flawed would result in an existential crisis for them.
they keep blaming the police but whos releasing them and not convicting the criminals ?
Local judges appointed by liberal politicians
The voters. The people in charge are to blame and it does not get higher than the people that elected the Mayor and Board of Supervisors.
What does crime have to do with X's revenue? It's an excuse for him to do what he was planning to do. He wants low taxes and low salaries. Texas provided that for him. It's that simple. Nothing more, nothing less.
The police got the message loud and clear and will provide the level of service the voters wanted and called for. As the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for because you might get it.
U don't have a vote in CA. It's totally corrupt. U don't know that?
Defund the police has had serious consequences for the country
Defund the Democrats
Great job Newsom, Breed, and SF Supervisors….
huh? These corps got everything they wanted and more, this is the result.
And the idiotic Presidential candidate who shoved Props 47 & 57 down our throats...
what a puff piece. More companies want to leave SF after their lease is up.
@@xx133 This is the result of high crime and high taxes. Get your facts straight
VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!
Not reported in this video despite twice mentioning office vacancies- The office vacancy rate in SF has hit 38%.
It is a sign SF will have new mayor this fall. Step up and vote for your city and community.
@@malin7919imagine if London Breed WINS AGAIN!! 😂😂😂
Imagine the tax revenue that has been lost! SF seems to be in a death spiral. How bad will it have to get before people vote for something different? I never thought they’d let it get this bad.
They still won’t change how they vote 😢
You got a nice name,Malin!@@malin7919
so workers don't want to be hassled , mugged, and spit on walking to work?
Why would companies be leaving? With rampant crime, drug use, homelessness, high costs, an inept government, what's not to like?
No, they don't want to pay taxes nor the SF salaries. Ironically, it's these corps which prevent the city from investing in communities that created the problems y mention above. They own the housing, they raise the prices to make more profit, they make living conditions worse, they push for defunding public schools, they push for redirecting tax dollars to their neighborhoods. This is the result.
And yet the city's clueless politicians imply that companies are somehow being "unfaithful" by leaving. They are only doing the logical thing.
Could it be that the City gave massive tax breaks to tech to build these buildings then downtown was over built? Capitalism is hard read a book
You forgot to mention the shitting on the sidewalks.
@@gregorymilla9213 Moved my sister into the Bay area around eleven years ago. We moved her out last year. Its like some Eastern European third world nightmare now. Couldn't believe just how bad the entire area looked. Pretty sad. I used to spend every free moment up there when I was in the service in the early and mid 90s. You would have to pay me to go back now.
Don't worry once all the business leave , SF can buy the building for free homes for illegals!!
Great idea. You could house hundreds of thousands from all around the world.
people in SF thanks for Kamala HARRIS and Democratic party policy
The voters are okay with SF and where it's heading. Otherwise they'd make wide sweeping changes in who they choose to run the city.
If there was any silver lining from 2020-2022, it's that we found out that some companies can be run from anywhere. Locating yourself in a crowded, unsafe, and trendy area is expensive and unnecessary.
“We need to do a better job of …” the best job they can do is to resign.
Well…that won’t happen. They’re trying to collect a check ya know…if they can destroy the local economy by pushing ideological policies that don’t work in real life, all the better.
Did I hear it correctly? The guy opened a comedy club & cocktail lounge in SF close to X's former HQ in 2024. He didn't know what's happening to SF in the past few years?
Some people are simply simpletons. Blind, and unaware.
Yeah, wild. He never questioned why his lease rate was so cheap or why the area was vacant of “paying customers” before he moved in.
The guy sounds like an idiot. The City has been doing its best to drive away business. He’s next and doesn’t even know it, but blames Musk 😂
He's clearly not from here...he will find out the hard way...maybe even with his own life.
that business will fail, dont know anything
He is obviously brainwashed.
I suspect, all he does in his empty restaurant is to desperately try to sell the business :)
Haha, only a dope would open a restaurant in San Francisco.
Many of the employees that worked in downtown SF are now working in San Diego, Miami, Mexico City, Austin to name a few where the quality of life is much better.
Yep, I have many friend went exactly to those locations you mentioned.
@@reempire888 I was going to name another city in Mexico that was at recently however, I didn’t want to give more Bay Area people any ideas. That city was insane, people from all over the world, working there having a good time. Food, laughter and safety.
Ha, when Mexico City is the 'safer' option, you know something is very, very wrong.
Forget any part of Mexico or any Latin American country. South Florida is where all global companies go to set up their LATAM headquarters or business in Latin America. The corruption, fraud, and crime is far too much to tolerate.
Who needs tech firms when you have poop maps. Keep on progressing.
I expect a homeless shelter at that location by 2025.
SF is turning into Detroit day by day.
Not quite. Berkeley, Stockton, Modesto, Fresno, Inland Empire . .. on and on .. are.
Expect homeless people and illegal immigrants move to those vacant office buildings soon 😅 they will give you a visit after hours
Vacancies should be filled by Haitians and Venezuela 🇻🇪 gangs.
Sure blame X lol
San Fran is only getting worst.
Worse lol
X is now worth 20% of what Elon Musk bought it for, that's why they moved, can't afford SF anymore.
it will only get worse. the remaining companies are stuck with long term leases for now, but those will end eventually.
thank you gavin grusome
Who thinks the vacancy rate will continue to climb?
You can only blame the politicians that you voted for
Another perfect location for homeless shelter 😂
More likely an “immigrant” shelter.
More firms need to move out to give Mayor Breed a blank canvas for her re-imagine SF.
its coming ... trust me its coming...
It's a good thing. Tech companies' employees have been vocal for many years that's it not safe both to commute and work in the city.
Aren’t they the ones who voted to set the cities policies? Now with money the fled to what hurt Colorado or Austin Texas more?
@@Charles-d4e3b Please stop pretending we live in a democracy. Also, stop pretending that corps don't run our society.
No, the people working in SF aren't moving to Texas to work-they're getting laid off. Musk is moving to get lower paid workers, with less worker protections, less regulations, cheaper real estate and tax handouts from Texas. These corps run the country, things are the way they are because they insist on enriching themselves over the well being of society.
Well I guess the problem of all those tech busses clogging the city has been solved.
SF one big comedy club.
Funny thing is, Liberals HATE comedy. It shows how ludicrous their ideals really are. One can only laugh when pointing out the truths of the last 4 years.
Kamala has done a wonderful job with San Francisco.
You were OK with Twitter/X leaving remember?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer and well run city 😂
a new business attacked three times in three months? Maybe that's why people are leaving.
You voted for this. Live with it.
London Breed is a joke of a candidate
It's all done on purpose. So BlackRock and hedge funds can buy out san Fran.
@@Trump-rv4nz OH YOU SHUT UP, TRUMP!!!!!
More voters in SF need to moderate their politics. Favoring ideologues of the left has done to the city what Joseph Stalin did to Russia, etc.
sf is dead, tax breaks for businesses that all have moved out, but none for the people who have lived there
If it’s dead why are the prices still sky high?
Businesses create cities. Businesses create economy. Businesses also fail cities If San Francisco was just a town with peope living there in houses without any businesses, those houses would have zero value. That’s the simple version of the economic ecosystem.
"Tax breaks" aren't the problem; high crime & bums defecating & urinating in the streets in broad daylight are the problem. If the city feels it has to give businesses "tax breaks" to incentivize them to stay, then that indicates there's a much bigger problem involved.
@@MrPGC137 that was all there 30-40 years ago. Its a city not suburbs.
I guess you'll be very happy without these businesses creating jobs and paying taxes. The homeless and the illegals will replace them.
Keep voting Progressive because its working out so well for you.
And the progressive politicians can't (or won't) see the failure of their policies.
Finally got rid of all of those 'tech bros'? Have fun filling that revenue gap City Hall!
Their revenue gap is dropping faster than Kamalas panties
Funny how people who have no job skills, collect welfare and live in rent controlled apartments, have to resort to blaming people with actual skills for all their problems.
Why on earth did you think it was a good investment to open a club/restaurant in SF in the current climate and leadership? "But U-Haul was charging such nominal fees to rent trucks moving in to the city..."
Democrats template for the rest of America and Keep voting Blue!!! 😂
You folks that supported BLM and defunding, it's your fault.
SOFT ON CRIME = DETROIT 2.0 😂
🥴 People do not like criminals roaming free 🥴
Almost 40% and we are way past covid.
This has nothing to do with Covid. Covid is nothing more thanthe catch-all ready-made cop-out excuse for people who can't/won't think about an issues deeply enough to see the underlying issues involved to solve the problem.
The Covid excuse is so ridiculous. It’s obviously the Liberal/Progressive policies that are routed in delusion. People don’t want Equality of Outcome. Reality wants Merit based success. Also most people don’t want Communism.
The majority of the city's voters are OK with San Francisco's current state and future direction.
What do you hope for the future?
Thanks Newsome.
So, has the rate hit 40%? This building will remain empty for years.
37%
They say 38% but Im sure the real numbers are much higher... the numbers they are giving are Democrat numbers which are ALWAYS way off from reality ... couldn't happen to a nicer city
This is just the beginning- SF will look like Detroit soon, maybe even worse, due to shoplifting, homelessness, etc.
"Stab in the back"? That's what he gets for opening a business in SF.
Man stab’s himself in the face then blames Elon Musk for stabbing him in the back to deflect from his stupidity.😂
While residential rents are through the roof... yeah, sure, let the market decide, it cares about quality of life, stable communities, ect..
You can thank Mayor Breed!!!!
Babon breed
No property tax revenue is going to crater City Hall and its pension system.
They have to change the law/ to lock up shoplifters the way they used to.
Well maybe they can convert some of these empty buildings into new jails...
Or else release low level drug offenders/ too many people in for simple possession.
The rent is too damn high
Go woke go broke.
Yep
It’s hilarious that people think that space will go to the people in need 😂😂😂😂😂 the people in charge of the city would rather eat all the 💩 off the street before doing that 😂😂😂😂
Why does he expect someone to move in soon?
Blind optimism. Much like opening a comedy club in an economically dying city and expecting it to do well.
@@GigaChad_169 delusional
Yeah blame Twitter 🙄
Why wouldn’t they flee, did anyone know that companies pay a tax for renting an office in SF? In addition, they are assessed a homeless tax. Both these expenses run the companies in the millions with no transparency to where this funds go. It is Only implied that it goes to where its supposed to, but in the mean time, corruption at City hall is at record levels.
The commercial sector is finished, and tax revenues are tremendously reduced. Marauding locusts shall work their way east with no need to feast in the barren landscape of Oakland. Residential communities are easy targets.
I feel bad for this small business person. He thinks someone will move into X's former office space soon. Unfortunately, the exit from S.F. has not stopped. The city leaders and justice systems have created another Detroit. I am part of a new AI startup and S.F. is not on our list of future locations. Not even with 100% free rent.
What is going to happen to the stores on the first floor?
Many more people and companies will move out. Small businesses should thank their govenor for doing nothing to retain these companies, and yet you still vote for Newsome
thank you Kamala
Delusional.
SF politics is a joke.
The late Mayor Lee was a GOAT. His successor failed to keep his work alive.
Remember Prop C?
Great job, voters! 🤣
It's fine. Newsom doesn't want Musk in California anyway.
The effect on the local economy is devastating. The former Lines Dance Center school a few blocks down from Twitter shut down this year after many years of vibrant life because too many of the afterwork students disappeared after businesses began shutting down.. it's sad.
What are y’all going to do without a dance studio? Emergency situation requiring FEMA relief!🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤣🤣
But these people voted for the leadership that put the city where it is.
These companies did leave the city..the city left them.
Why would you open a comedy club in a city where the jokes write themselves?
We did it Gavin 👏
I just looked at the stores left in SF Center Mall (Now Emporium Center). Looks to be 75% vacant. SF isn't coming back. Also, check out the prices on Zillow of SOMA condos that are going for $1M+ discounts.
no mention of the mayor...
They should convert some of those over to homeless shelters is plenty of homeless people running around to fill them!!!
This is freaking hilarious!
This is for all the property owners/ homeowners and the parents to figure out
Keep voting liberal and this js what you'll keep getting. We love X in TX, because, 🎶 All my X's are in Texas 🎶 🤣
This city will never come back
It’s tragic
Great comments on here. On what the true problem is!! Business are against the wall what is to expect? Someone failed and won't take the responsibility for it!!
Blame your woke governor
Think positive. don't consider it a vacancy rate, call it an availability rate.
Matt Dorsey, it’s not that you need to do a better job. The city needs to clean out all of it. The idea of tax tax tax tax and getting no service for the needs of everyone is now crumbling at your feet. You don’t need to do a better job what you need to do is a superior job. You politicians are all alike. You’re failing at every level. And then you talk about doing a better job. More like you need to clean house from top to bottom, which would require a superior job.
@theczar6171 Well said
Give companies and employees multiple reasons to stay or come back. Currently, the city has given them multiple reasons to leave.
Every time I hear from the media, all is well. Oh, I guess not!
Ask yourself why these firms are all leaving. San Fran has become a trash can.
Nobody's cares anymore.
VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!
VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!
Blame Newsom and pelosi
It’s around 30% full. Parking lots attendants know.
what "help from the city" is he talking about :D
Big tax breaks to move in, gentrify the city and displace local communities.
@@lacha608 big for who? SF city budget is 14 billion, Twitter revenue pre elon acquisition was 4 to 5 billion.
SF spends anywhere between 1.1 billion (2021) to 2.8 billion in (2016) on homelessness. 70 million is a chump change that corrupt quasi communist city officials are using as conversation piece for NPCs that "city did everything", when in fact they are doing everything in their power to push them out.
"gentrified" - isn't valid excuse either. can't please this quasi commies, move in and it is gentrification, move out and it is flight, can't please whichever way you go.
Good! Fix the crime problem first!!
San Francisco is a wonderful city with lots of history, entertainment and food, but far too expensive to live and do business in, add in remote working and there isn't a reason why companies need to keep a physical presence within the city.
San Francisco has too many policy issues make all companies move out
So many nice vacant buildings to house homeless and ensure drugdealer/thief protection from the weather.