That is true of almost anywhere. In the US, overseas, big cities, small cities. At least in the US, the current migration pattern is back toward cities, after the move to the suburbs of the past couple of generations.
That's 100% nonsense. Some urban cores are seeing gentrification. Inner suburbs are going ghetto, and people with kids are moving further out.
Until you start hearing about urban schools doing great, anything you hear about the resurgence of the city is due to your personal overexposure to dink couples and gay people without families.
Definitely don't hear about urban schools doing great.
What I do hear is pretty much everyone I know (and who can afford it, which in tech isn't a small amount) moving closer to the city and sending their kids to expensive private schools (which in turn, probably makes the problem worse).
SFUSD has a large number of very high performing public schools, though there are also still a lot of middling and severely underperforming schools.
Test scores aren't everything, but I don't think it's accurate to say SF has bad schools. I'd say it's more of a a mixed bag.
That's the case for the suburbs as well, the difference is that you can convert a high mortgage payment into priority access to a 9 or 10 in the burbs, whereas in SF, there's a much greater element of randomness to it.
this is extremely wrong. I watched the city I grew up rapidly gentrify, and I have seen my new city(nyc) rapidly gentrify over the past decade. I think your opinion is due to personal underexposure and perhaps some bias toward urban lifestyles.
