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In many large and medium sized cities they are official names, and the neighborhoods can have local councils for things like events, signage/decorations, historic building management, etc. Example from San Diego CA

Is that the greater city area or just the centre portion zoned as being the local government district. I have noticed more and more fudging going on, where positive propaganda calls up greater city statistics and negative reports are down played by only calling up the specific city centre local government.

Want safer cities with regards to cars, have less cars and that means substantively bigger buildings, where people can work, live and play within the one structure and receive services support from directly adjoining major structures. Arcologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... would have to become the norm else, cities will choke to death with traffic problems and making traffic flow worse will certainly no solve problems just lead to permanent traffic jams and economic avoidance of problem traffic areas.

That phrase / metric refers to the City of San Diego, although I guess we've dropped down to 8th at this point.

That being said, unless you're comparing jurisdictions or running for office we refer to the overall area as just "San Diego". The city of San Diego is huge and broken up into about 100 different neighborhoods, some of which are just as large as the smaller cities that the City of San Diego now adjoins but which were once 10 miles away. cf http://www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles/index.shtml vs https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=San_Diego_County,_California#Communities

Between having a strong County government system in California, a surprisingly effective regional planning council known as SANDAG, and a huge 20 mile desert and/or 80 mile national forest separating the county/region from surrounding areas, we don't care too much. Non San Diegans barely think of San Diego in the first place, so they're definitely not going to know what you're talking about if you say you're from "Santee" instead.

Also, we hate dense urban development. The vast majority of San Diego county is composed of single family homes, aside from the downtown core, where there are lot of condos. Pretty sure San Diego is the last urban place that's going to become an Arcology... the people that want that will move up to the Bay Area, or the blurry mass that is Greater Los Angeles.

SF has a sizable homeless population because SF isn't that homeless-hostile. Compare San Diego.

As I recall, SF actually provides better than most places for the homeless. I'm reminded of a news article I read a number of years ago about a city in Florida (sorry, no cite) that, since SF was so homeless friendly, decided to devote their minimal allocation of funds for the homeless to pay for bus tickets to SF for their homeless population.

And people say Republicans are dumb. Bus tickets, FTW!

The article had no thesis, and really was just mindless rambling.

Agreed. The ad-driven tech bubble will burst at some point, but not for any of those reasons.

Bank of America was bought by North Carolina National Bank in 1998. So that issue was 16 years ago. SF has a sizable homeless population because SF isn't that homeless-hostile. Compare San Diego.

Earthquakes are a real worry. SF prepares for them. All new buildings get serious reinforcement, and most of the old ones have been retrofitted. All through SF, you see huge diagonal steel braces in buildings. (In some retrofits, these block windows.) The San Francisco Bay Bridge from the island to Oakland was completely replaced because one short section broke in the 1989 earthquake. The Golden Gate Bridge was reinforced in the 1950s. Freeway supports are huge compared to what you see in the rest of the country, and many that were not damaged at all by the 1989 quake were beefed up. Now SF is starting a mandatory earthquake retrofit program for wood-frame buildings with 5 or more dwelling units. Unreinforced masonry buildings (i.e. brick) were dealt with years ago; there were about 2000 in 1990, and all but 125 have been reinforced or torn down. That's definitely a problem that's not being ignored.

You can't clear out any of the underbrush, and we have to stop wild fires right away! (See California)

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Wow. What a broad brush you've got there. Brush clearing has always been okay, even on public lands.
Jeezus, what bunch of hand-wringing whiny pussies conservatives have become.

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You are wrong, this is July. Brush clearing is not 'always' ok, in fact it's prohibited between March 1st and August 15th (about 6 months out of the year). Here's an example reference from the Brush Management Guide for the city of San Diego in California.

NOTE: Brush management activities are prohibited within coastal sage scrub, maritime succulent scrub, and coastal sage-chaparral habitats from March 1 through August 15...

A quick google search confirms that the Green Plug is no longer made because electrical motors produced in the last five years or so have been redesigned and now incorporate the same features as the plugs. Not because they didn't work on old motors.

Is the world really that much more dangerous?

No. Depending on the location and crime, the danger either peaked in the late 70's or the early 90's. Ever since then, we've been enjoying declining crime rates. The crime decline has been most positive in those urban areas traditionally seen as the most dangerous, such as San Diego and New York City.

Look at the per X inhabitants rates.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
http://www.sandiego.gov/police/pdf/UCRrates50to200 6.pdf
http://samoa.istat.it/Eventi/sicurezza/relazioni/L angan_rel.pdf