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Imagine a reputation (real or imagined) so bad that everyone sees you as a cautionary tale.


The thread is still fresh. They’ll flood in soon to tell us how great it is, how we’re hobophobic, and that Breed is a fascist and this is all her fault.


It's almost like there's a motivated coalition of business interests, right wing culture warriors, and conservative media that constantly pushes an overwhelmingly negative image of one particular city into people's news feeds to promote a particular agenda. Or something.


A massive chunk of this sites’ users have lived or worked in the Bay. It’s telling that many of them corroborate the reputation. I have personally experienced it many times, it definitely is a cautionary tale.




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