[john70t]

Spent almost ten years in SF. The bureaucrat nonsense "left my heart there" as Sinatra sang about once.

Getting passed by completely empty or completely packed bus drivers never on time and usually MIA. City Tow breaking into peoples fenced in yards to steal their cars. The city bus mechanics working on personal cars of politicians. The warped smog rules and blatant ripoffs to jump through all the regulation hoops, while the next guy over knows a guy he paid off for a signature. Everything was identity politics and everyone was trying to get into some government grant or program or scam. There were only a few people I spent time with (older chinese guys coincidentally) who did things because it was the right thing to do and not because there was some advantage to be gained or something to be taken advantage of. The rest could be tossed in the dumpster. There was rarely any love there, at least in my circles.