I know people love this take, but I grew up in a landscape like this with tons of kids. We all played outside, “free range” for hours and hours a day.
The difference is it was pre smartphone.
The most frustrating thing about moving to SF from the Midwest is the glaring fact that 100% of the city’s problems are self inflected.
SF is not on the wrong side of deindustrialization.
It doesn’t have an unfavorably cold climate.
Its local industry isn’t in structural
One thing people don't realize about San Francisco's problems is that the city would almost instantly become one of the best in America in every category if it were governed as well as even the median city.
One of the side effects of American culture being so dominant is that Britons occasionally forget they live in the UK and are subject to British libel laws.
Yesterday, November 26, 2023, was the busiest day ever for air travel in the US.
Transportation Security Administration screened 2,894,304 individuals at airports nationwide, the busiest day ever for air travel.
True rawdoggers know that not all inflight maps are equal. They vary by software and airline. My personal favorite was the experience on Finn Air, where they filled the ocean map with notable shipwrecks.
Negative campaigning against boats.