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Why I think Berkeley is the best place to live in the Bay Area
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 21, 2015 | by Katie Dowd

Posted on 04/21/2015 4:55:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

I want to preface this by saying that Berkeley is not for everyone.

You have to have a high tolerance for eccentricities of all types. You have to love a little chaos. And you have to accept that things will always be a bit messy.

But, if you're the type of person who doesn't mind insanity, Berkeley is a wonderland.

Berkeley has a well-earned reputation for its over-the-top liberalism which can sometimes mask its finest quality: diversity. From its various neighborhoods to its endless ethnic cuisine, Berkeley is as interesting and weird as its inhabitants.

Dirty and scruffy on the outside but vibrant and fascinating within. If nothing else, Berkeley always challenges your beliefs. And what more could you ask of a great city?

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: berkeley; dirty; filthyhippies; moonbattery; ravingloons
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To: Rusty0604

Isn’t Berkeley really ‘North Oakland’?

I remember driving in Oakland then just happened onto to a Berkeley sign..

No fan of San Fran but San fran side vs Oakland/Berkeley side no contest..


21 posted on 04/21/2015 5:36:30 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Berkeley always challenges your beliefs

As they say in Berkeley, "BELIEFS???"

22 posted on 04/21/2015 5:37:33 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: delchiante

Towns run into each other around there. Population growth.


23 posted on 04/21/2015 5:38:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why I think Berkeley is the best place to live in the Bay Area

Years ago when I passed through Berserkely the homeless were openly using the sidewalks for toilets.

Except for the weather it felt like being back in NY City when Dinkens was mayor.


24 posted on 04/21/2015 5:38:58 PM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

I used to go ice skating at the Berkeley ice rink, before they built one in Vacaville. I thought that even many of the people on the ice were weird too.


25 posted on 04/21/2015 5:45:09 PM PDT by Mark17 (Beyond the sunset, O blissful morning, when with our Savior, Heaven is begun. Earth's toiling ended)
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To: ecomcon

“And what more could you ask of a great city?”

Maybe to let it kill you—spiritually, physcically and existeniially. All of you. How can anyone considerr human congestion, abberation and folly to be the foundation of a life to be well-lived. The isolation of a Montana rancher, Utah Mormon, West Texas cowboy or Arizona trucker seems more profound and open to the possibility of enlightenment to me.


26 posted on 04/21/2015 5:55:06 PM PDT by yetidog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The only Bay Area (left coast) city I’d want to see is Livermore. That is because I was born in the city when my dad worked at Livermore Lawrence Labs.


27 posted on 04/21/2015 6:00:52 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: gaijin
“Berkeley is chock-full of rude, angry people.”

Got that right. I have been to the Bowl. What you have to do is meet the jerks face to face. ie: If they get in your face you feed it right back. They act crazy but they aren't as crazy as they act and are basically cowards. If you make them realize what ever they think will happen will not be the way it will play out as in they will get hurt. It doesn't happen often but has worked ok for me. I make them aware I am capable and willing to deal as in if they don't STFU we will have a serious problem.

28 posted on 04/21/2015 6:04:21 PM PDT by Polynikes (What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
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To: Mark17

Yes... their were Canadians playing hockey... :-)


29 posted on 04/21/2015 6:05:13 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: grimalkin

“I mind insanity quite a bit”

Same here.

For some unknown reason I’m a nut magnet.

People I’ve never seen in my life will walk up to me and start telling me their life story and it’s always weird crap nothing normal.


30 posted on 04/21/2015 6:51:54 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Why I think Berkeley is the best place to live in the Bay Area”

Guess: It has the highest crime rate so rents are affordable?


31 posted on 04/21/2015 6:55:53 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hmmmm ..??

I’ve always wondered why “diversity” is in the same sentence with “neighborhoods”.

True diversity is an integrated neighborhood; not neighborhoods of like-groups of people.

This is just typical of liberals. Diversity means whatever they say it means. In other words, if liberals say that segregating people into neighborhoods is diversity - then it’s just accepted as such. When is this country finally going to figure out that we’re being lied to over and over and over again ..?? As usual, the liberals continue to speak out of both sides of their mouth.


32 posted on 04/21/2015 7:12:01 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The campus is beautiful.


33 posted on 04/21/2015 7:14:10 PM PDT by Yaelle ("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way..." - Smokey)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Berkeley is every libs dream come true....unfortunately it is closer to a third world dump than anything else


34 posted on 04/21/2015 7:14:31 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Polynikes
On August 16th 1977 I was making a sales call on a camera store in the middle of Berkeley. The store had a radio on and they interrupted some Greatfull Dead pos drunge to mention Elvis had died. Never a big Elvis fan (I did see him sorta alive at a North Lake Tahoe casino a couple years earlier)but it kinda hit me. An American icon had died. Seeing my slightly shocked expression, a freaky clerk looked at me and in all perplexed seriousness and said “who???”.
I was 30 my and the wife was 22 and from Norway and she was still sniffling when I got home to Coupertino.
A 22 yo from another country was crying and some hippy clerk in Berkeley had not a clue.It was then a realized how huge the disconnect was and knew it would only grow.Thinking of that day still makes me sad.
35 posted on 04/21/2015 7:16:53 PM PDT by crabpott (' we are living in the strangest, most perilous, and unbelievable decade in modern memory' VDH)
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To: crabpott

Grateful Dead owed a lot to Elvis. Did you ever see Jerry’s pelvic action?


36 posted on 04/21/2015 8:32:26 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: MeganC

agreed! This article is the pure creation of the reaction know as incredulous maximus.


37 posted on 04/21/2015 8:48:06 PM PDT by apostoli (Time to thump the nose of the parrots.)
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To: Mark17

my league (the old PHA) occasionally had games scheduled at the Oakland rink back when in the early 90s. late night games followed by beer in the parking lot. other than a few panhandlers, no one gave cause for concern.


38 posted on 04/21/2015 10:24:55 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (Go Isles!)
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To: LeoWindhorse
got their degrees , got their doctorates , and are now the ‘professors’ teaching the youth of America from the same vile Leftist ideology that they used to take into the streets in 69’ .

This is what I've heard about Berkeley.

The college is still spewing crazy sh*t.

39 posted on 04/22/2015 3:32:12 AM PDT by beachn4fun (The only hyphen you need...American - or not!)
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