The 2 main problems in San Francisco are homeless and the fact that cops can't enforce the law or laws about crime just don't make sense. How many times someone has to break into a car and get caught to finally go to jail?
Gay men including yourself have been benefited by many enlightened policies, technologies, ideas, etc. that came out of that city! Even the technologies that allow this forum to exist and that have taken gay men online instead cruising in parks, have roots in Silicon Valley!
For instance, San Francisco was one of the very first cities in this country where nonwhites and gay men didn't suffer open legal racism.