As a long-ago (70's) resident of Berkeley this article is a real hoot. I have been saying for a long time now that I wondered how all those hippies are coping with being millionaires because of the current real estate values of those dumpy little houses they bought years ago. LOL
They seem to all live north of University off of Shattuck. I went by there a week or so ago and the disconnect of housing between the uber wealthy Berkeleyites in their hillside palaces and their brethren in the bottoms is amazing.
You know they had to be hippies from all the lefty slogan bumper stickers they had plastered on their vehicles.