Repentance?
As a friend of mine who just moved out of there told me, it’s the only city whose government cares more about foreign policy than fixing the potholes in the streets.
Leaving the hobos and eccentrics aside, Berkeley isn’t a wonderful place to raise kids, as there are rather few kids. Not many neighborhood friends around.
And it has a powerful underclass element.
San Francisco, oddly enough, is better (though not great) in both respects.
I mind insanity quite a bit. It doesn't play nice with life. No thanks.
This babe would have loved the U.S.S.R.
I lived in Berzerkely ,briefly , in 1969 and it was truly nuts . Overt anti-American anti-Vietnam war rioters running rampant in the streets . Mostly all white kids . Burning , looting , and running in mobs . Overhead , helicopters dispatching tear gas , APC’s at intersections , Cal Ntl Guard soldiers bearing M-1 Garrands with bayonets fixed . Alameda County Sheriffs with night sticks rounding up the unwashed hairy miscreants and placing them in stadiums for days . Ronald Reagan was the Governor ordering all this response . He won . But the Leftists a-holes never gave up . The most committed of them stayed in school , 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’ . Berkeley has always been a breeding ground for these vermin ever since .
The politics are kooky and many parts are dirty and a little dangerous, but there’s something ELSE, far more significant:
Berkeley-ites are RUDE. Rude as hell. To each other. Needlessly, and about super small stuff.
They have a Whole Foods type, non-chain store there called The Berkeley Bowl.
SUPER RUDE PEOPLE.
And on telegraph and around campus there are rude whackos who I think don’t go to Cal (that means UC Berkeley), and they’re grunged out, or goth, and their begging style is...
RUDE, yep.
Berkeley is chock-full of rude, angry people.
Berkeley is a damned good place to get your feet wet... in preparation for HELL....
all who are considering housing in HELL would be quite at home there..
Robin of Berkeley disagrees...
“I have a friend out here who totally gets it, what a crazy, deluded place is Berkeley. We have a saying that we use whenever describing the insanity around here. We say, “Forget it, Jake. It’s Berkeley.”
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Yes, Berkeley is Berkeley. When the populace ignores and excuses the terrible things going on around here, my friend and I say, “It’s Berkeley.” When, for instance, a beloved member of the Berkeley Zen Center is murdered in cold blood, while residents turn a blind eye to the obscene crime rate around here, “it’s Berkeley.” (1)
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As my friend and I often say when we behold daily the darkness of Berkeley, “Forget it, Jake. It’s Berkeley.” But we can’t forget it, none of us can; the future is in the hands of each and every one of us. Because it’s not just Berkeley or Oakland or San Francisco; the same darkness is eroding people of all ages all over the country. This is inevitably what happens when a people abandon God.
And we don’t want to one day be saying to each other, “Forget it, Jake. It’s the United States.”
http://www.robinofberkeley.com/
Bezerkeley.
When I lived out there and I had some out of town visitors, I would tell them if they want to see some really crazy people, I’d take them to Telegraph Ave. In Berserkly.
As they say in Berkeley, "BELIEFS???"
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.
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.
“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?
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.
The campus is beautiful.
Berkeley is every libs dream come true....unfortunately it is closer to a third world dump than anything else