My out of state family always looks at me like I'm an alien when I mention I'm spending a weekend in San Francisco.

The modern media ecosystem really is a bizarre thing. Amazing that liars have learned to be so effective that people trust them over their friends and family and often their own eyes.

They think Portland was burnt to the ground, they think Chicago, New York, LA, San Francisco, are war zones where everyone is shooting each other and gangs of black youths are patrolling the streets murdering and raping white women.

They think all of this unironically

Levi’s Stadium is in Santa Clara, not San Francisco. So weird, because it’s a good 45 minute drive from SF.

The image the right wing nut jobs and oligarchy machine constantly propagandize for the last several decades for their drones

I didn't realize right wingers actively thought of San Francisco as a hellhole. I've heard it of Portland and Los Angeles, but never of the Bay area. I thought people imagined that all the coastal elites were from there.

I was in SF last year for a 9ers game (stayed in San Mateo, did a bunch of touristy stuff in SF and of course the actual game was in Santa Clara). Some homeless people digging through the trash in Portsmouth Square Park. I think someone tried to break into our Airbnb, too. But, I never really felt unsafe. It's not really any worse than most any other big city in the US. Kinda run down, seems like it could use some TLC, but that's true of most American cities. And of course everything is stupid expensive.

The worst part was the traffic, imo. We used Caltrain and I think Bart? Idk, it was confusing. And expensive. And slow. But we also did a fair amount of driving, and driving around SF is like my own personal hell. To be fair, though, I generally hate driving in any major US city. But I think SF is worse than most.

SF isn't terrible, but it ain't great, either.

I told people I was going to Chicago, they acted like I was going to Gaza. It’s a fucking city, stop pretending Fox “news” speaks any kind of truth

When do you realize you’ve been systematically lied to?

Two of us did a 25-mile bike ride along San Francisco shoreline a couple weeks ago.

Was fully expecting to ride over homeless people, drug addicts, and raging anarchists. All we saw was pleasant weather, a beautiful coast line, and people just doing their thing. Horrified at how damn sedate Sunset Dunes and Golden Gate Park were.

The most annoying thing was out-of-service BART escalators. Expected having to dodge gang-wars and knife attacks while going up and down the stairs.

Got home with zero scars. Would not recommend.

Every time I spend a nice weekend in Seattle or Portland, I get home and see people on Facebook acting like it's Escape From LA and you gotta be Snake Plissken to survive.

The stadium is nowhere near San Francisco. It’s 45 minutes away in Santa Clara

I see a lotta people mention humam shit on the sidewalk in SF because an app that let you report such things got flooded by trolls once and some funny meme images csme from it.

I'm there fairly regularly and have never seen shit on the sidewalk outside of the occasional dog turd some asshole owner didn't pick up; which I see almost everywhere I've been in the world, too.

The worst thing I can say about SF is the traffic is terrible despite having pretty decent public transportation. I never drive there. I drive to Livermore and take BART into and around the city and walk everywhere else. And if not for Musk's dumbass I might have been able to not even have to drive to Livermore; they were planning on extending BART where I live and I'd have been able to never need a car to get to the Bay Area at all until that dipshit lobbied against it.