City Dump

San Francisco is literally the worst:

The survey considered everything from the effectiveness of local leadership to the quality of city services. Thirty-six metrics, grouped into six service categories, were compared against the city’s total per-capita budget. San Francisco came in dead last among 148 of the largest U.S. municipalities. WalletHub looked at financial stability, education, health, safety, economy, infrastructure, and pollution. Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale. It also calculated an overall quality of city services score for each city based on its weighted average across all the metrics. WalletHub divided the quality of city services score by the total budget per capita dollar amount to come up with a score per dollar spent that it used as its overall rank. This Oct. 28, 2015, photo shows the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco skyline from the Marin Headlands above Sausalito, California. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) For San Francisco, that meant a less than impressive showing. Nearby Oakland, California, followed San Fransisco. Gulfport, Mississippi; New York City; and Flint, Michigan, rounded out the bottom five. The top of the list was populated by mostly smaller cities. Nampa, Idaho; Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky; and Boise, Idaho, were the top three. San Francisco has struggled since COVID-19. The city also has problems related to homelessness, crime, and cash-strapped public schools. The downtown area of San Fransisco, once a tourist hotspot, has been hollowed out, with businesses opting to move to safer areas where retail theft isn’t as big of a problem and law enforcement isn’t hamstrung by local laws that let offenders go free. Last year, a Gallup poll found that nearly half of the people surveyed believed San Francisco is unsafe and would not live or visit there.

San Francisco, it's not gonna rise again...