Despite the Right-Wing Media BS, San Francisco is Safe. San Jose, CA is the safest big city, and in my hometown, San Diego, the second largest city in California, the rate was 6.0/100,000. Lower than San Francisco.
California is booming, and the state’s tech economy continues to create wealthy people, especially in San Francisco. Nineteen Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in San Francisco, and a third of companies worth more than $10 billion that went public from 2020 through 2022 were from the city. In 2022, San Francisco-based companies received $31 billion in venture capital funding, according to CBRE.As Bloomberg stated in August, 2023, “The number of millionaires in the Golden State has surged.” The top four tech hubs in the US, 1. SF Bay Area, 2. New York, 3. Los Angeles, and 4. San Diego, all have low rates of crime. Places such as Ron DeSantis’ hometown, the murder capitol of Florida, Jacksonville, FL (13.3/100,000), Miami (10.7/100,000), and Houston TX (20.1/100,000) have much higher homicide rates.
Forget the conservative, corporate bullcrap being spewed in mass media (they’re owned by billionaires espousing deregulation and low taxes for self-serving purposes), if you want want to live in the most fun state, with the safest cities, best universities, best food, and most upward mobility, California is the place you want to be. Poor people leaving California are doing their children a disservice – if they move to TX (the Greg Abbott curriculum) or FL (the Ron DeSantis curriculum) with their substandard universities, the kids will be flipping burgers and dodging bullets for life at their local Whataburger.
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