Posted on 02/14/2019 6:53:27 AM PST by posterchild
It would appear we are fleeing California like it’s on fire (which, actually, it literally is lately); only large quantities of “foreign” people moving into one area typically disrupt culture and incite hatred like that. Yet San Francisco rent continues to lead the nation based on white-hot demand. This doesn’t really make sense.
Let me offer a snapshot of San Francisco in 2018:
A friend is having a birthday party at a funky dive bar in the Mission and has invited you. Despite the ostensibly blue-collar aesthetic, you pay $14 for a cocktail containing house-made lavender syrup and organic gin. You lean against a vintage pinball machine, a shrine to the predigital adolescence half the people in the bar never had, and proceed to make small talk with the other guests, asking, “Where are you from?”
(Excerpt) Read more at sf.curbed.com ...
High taxes, impossible rents, insane laws, normal people scorned, wackos in control.
Coming to your neighborhood soon!:)
The only time I visited Orange County, the air was full of sooty gook. I don’t understand the appeal.
I am trying to figure out if this is a parody. Intentionally, I mean.
I wish these people would quit coming to New Orleans. They don’t get us, and that’s just the way we like it.
Dear Diane Helmuth,
If you don’t know, You’re the reason.
Sincerely,
Red Badger
Oh poop.
I agree with only “3/4” of your view. To me the whole thing is a display of the overwhelming self-abosorbtion of the “California-techie-arrogant” culture.
Ignored by the people working in tech is what tech has become most useful for - building human bee hives, both figuratively in the “social media” since, and literally in the human habititats they are (1) creating, (2) drawn to and (3) have to live in because that’s where the “tech” jobs are.
They are consequently dissatisfied humans and don’t understand why and don’t understand they - their work - is part of the problem. Humans do not REAALY like to live like bees. They don’t like being drones with one queen and in this age that one queen is the technology and the arrogance of those in charge of it.
My family is from cold, rust-belt midwest. My uncle (now dead) stayed in SoCal after his discharge in WWII, and married a local girl. Her dad grew oranges just near Huntington Beach and owned land around there and further north towards Seal Beach. Mom visited them regularly in the 1950s and early 60s (before her own family got too large). Mom thought it was paradise on earth, and had us all back home believing the same.
Mission to city hall now named newsom feces district
I left my sh*t in San Francisco. High on a hill it calls to me...
Worth the read. Thanks for posting.
Her contention is that it is the non tech people fleeing what the tech wealth had produced.
I work in tech, far away from silicon valley, and don’t feel part of any hive fortunately. Actually I find many midwesterners I know are getting remote jobs with tech firms or the firms are opening local offices as they cannot get enough talent to move to their coastal ‘tech hub.’
It probably was a paradise back then.
thank you.
That’s SOP on cruise ships. Stayed dry for a week rather than pay ripoff prices (no BYOB, they search your luggage).
Anyway, the writer is as vapid, shallow, and self absorbed as any Left Coast liberal. I’ll take my small Southern state any day to Bay Area madness.
SF has firmly evolved into “a great place to visit, but I’d not want to live there.”
“If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some feces in your hair.”
(Apologies to Scott McKenzie, RIP)
In a way, that's exactly what it is.
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