There's no parking and the rents are astronomical.

A big problem in the Castro as well as the rest of the city is that the tech workers with a lot of money came into San Francisco and gentrified it . These people came in purchase the buildings kicked out the residents redid the building raise the rent. A lot of people moved out of San Francisco because they could no longer afford to live there. The Castro was a gay neighborhood and now you have a lot of non gays that live there that really don't support the businesses that are there. When this first started happening the first thing I said was that when people at the bottom of the totem pole can no longer afford to stay there they will move away and the businesses will shut down because they will have no workers. The old money gays either died or moved to Palm Springs. 20 years ago you couldn't twirl a jockstrap on your finger without hitting another queen in the face. Back in the day we went to the bar to hook up now that's not needed with the Internet you can just text- a- dick, a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of Lube and a good time can be had by all right at home. The old days of the Castro are gone forever just like everything else things change. Back in the day tourist came to the Castro from all over the world just to look, but the pandemic hit all the bad publicity that San Francisco got about the theft in the homelessness and all the people just stop coming to the city because they didn't wanna get robbed. Another big thing is before gays clustered together for security and now California being what it is gays can live anywhere and not have problems they feel more secure in their surroundings for the most part. Like the old song says" everything must change nothing and no one stays the same".

I'm 61, I remember the Castro when the street was mobbed with people. You could barely walk on the sidewalks.  Absolutely packed with people all the time. I'm in Palm Springs now.

It's not Castro or the city or country. It's all over the world 💔

That gate you were standing in front of at the beginning of the video(461 Castro St.) is where I lived from 1990 to 1996, good times! However, it was packed with people even on a Tuesday night. Now it's sad.

I moved to San Francisco from Alabama in 1979. It's depressing to see what has happened to the Castro. Plastering rainbow flags on everything has not helped, it's missing young people looking for connection and has way too many drug addicts and mentally unstable street people. So much potential for a new generation to shake things up. Castro needs a rebirth and stop clinging desparately to what it used to be. It's freaking dead right now and it's not pretty, it's depressing. I hope it doesn't take a total collapse of real estate values for it to renew, because that's what happened before the gays moved here in the early 1970's. Thanks for the video.

Everywhere I go in the country major retail is closing down!

Walgreens and cvs closing due to out of control theft due to local policy

Just wanted to drop in here and say THANK YOU for what you do! ❤ You are such a bright reassuring presence for us, especially in 2020 when SF was locked down and we were stuck in our tiny apartment there. Great to see you’re still at it!

Thanks !
Excellent breakdown of the current Castro district.

Folks we are all going home soon.

I’m a CA native. SF was my home for 20 years. I wouldn’t go back there for any amount of money. It went from paradise to shithole faster than I ever thought imaginable.

When I lived in SF through 1985, the Castro was thriving every night of the week. Sidewalks packed, stores and bars overflowing all night long. The area was a safe haven for gays from all over the world — and they moved there. But as society “evolved,” there was no longer any need for a so-called gay ghetto. That’s another explanation for why the Castro is now just another sleepy neighborhood.

WOW!! That's crazy!!! I'm born and raised from San Francisco and the Castro was always packed with people coming and going 7 days a week, now it looks like it's dead like a GHOST town!! It's just sad how San Francisco has changed a lot all over the city!! So he's right because I know for a big FACT how San Francisco used to be!! It seems like after the pandemic, San Francisco has been struggling since to back to get to how it used to be before the pandemic

SF certainly has seen better days. A lot of the state has as well.

Gloryholes are hiring workers must be an expert vacuum cleaner

PLANdemic. SCAMdemic. ALL LIES. Satanic mind control operation.

The outdoor cafes are one plus that the pandemic left behind. The lights make the neighborhood pretty.

Nice work, appreciate you.

The Castro Theatre will never be the same, and it was the anchor for that entire district. Despite massive opposition from people from all over SF, the Bay Area and in fact the world, the owners paid off the city council and got their way. They changed this historic San Francisco gem from a legendary art cinema, community center and nexus for worldwide independent cinema into a trendy nightclub. Young folks craving loud music, drugs and excitement will come from all over, creating noise, crime, and issues. The owners will make money, but the neighborhood will suffer. The literate, community-conscious artists and cinephiles who used to haunt that place--and they kept it plenty busy and profitable!--are gone and won't be coming back. For two freaking years, it has not earned a cent, and its closure has contributed to blight up and down the entire block. And even when/if it opens, it WILL be a problem. Mark my words. RIP Castro Theatre, you were so magical.