ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Downtowns across the U.S. have struggled after pandemic lockdowns. Why has the “doom loop” narrative — the idea that a city will spiral downward because all its problems are interwoven — persisted so strongly in San Francisco? The most obvious answer is that things are actually going wrong, said Jesse Barron, a contributing writer for @nytmag. San Francisco faces multiple overlapping problems: “Work-from-home policies emptied out the office buildings downtown, there’s a fentanyl crisis, and homeless services are grossly inadequate — the shelter system runs more than 4,000 beds short, for example,” Barron said. But many American cities are dealing with similar challenges. So why does San Francisco attract all this vitriol, which is so disproportionate to the conditions on the ground? “I think it’s because San Francisco holds a special place in American media and politics — everything that happens there is magnified,” Barron said in an interview with Soumya Karlamangla, a reporter for The Times. “It’s a symbol as much as a city.” Barron recently published an account of an attack this year on a former city fire commissioner and, more broadly, the origins of San Francisco’s negative reputation. Tap the link in our bio to read the full conversation with Barron and to read his piece for @nytmag. Photo by @jimwilson125」11月30日 3時20分