San Francisco business owners and residents talk drug, crime crisis: ‘Zombie apocalypse,’ ‘dystopia’

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One resident, Seema Gokhale, who lives near the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco and has been the city for almost a decade, described life there as “post-apocalyptic.”

“It honestly feels like I’m in a place that’s been in a zombie apocalypse. It’s like a dystopia. It really feels like a dystopian reality right now where I see boarded up storefronts. I see people defecating on the streets,” Gokhale said.

Homeless people are seen on the streets of the Tenderloin district in San Francisco, Calif., on Oct. 30, 2021.Tom Wong is a business owner whose parents left China to escape communism. “The mindset is changing for the Asian community there. They’re probably realizing that the leftist [policies] are not working and it’s eroding away family values,” like the importance of education, Wong explained.

Tony Hall is a former city councilman and business owner who told Fox News Digital that the city has taken a nosedive in recent years.Anadolu Agency via Getty Images “There are very few shoppers down on the historic Union Square, one of the great shopping areas of the country. And I’m sorry to report that because like many people that live here and consider ourselves natives, we love this city. We hate to see it going this way, but it’s due to total mismanagement.”

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