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 ...
My son lives in Menlo Park and would like to move out of Cali so that he can afford to buy a house.
It looked ok during the Ironside and Streets Of SF era from what I’ve seen.
Plus other historical stuff that I have seen and read about.
You left out the Marina District as another exception.
I remember in college and law school it was supposed to be a cool thing to move to San Francisco, I suppose because homosexuality was considered cool, even by hetero liberals. I wonder if that’s still the case now with all that poop in the streets...
Used to attend a lot of trade shows and conventions in SF. Not no more. Most trade shows have moved their events to Orlando and Nashville and San Diego for an acceptable California location. When the trade associations vote on future convention sites, no one votes for SF.
If you’re goin’ to San Francisco
Be sure to wear...a hazmat suit
In the streets of San Francisco
You’re gonna meet
Some unwashed junkies there
Another once-great city ruined by progressives.
Where ever these flee’ers end up they pollute that place with their left wing politics.
That can only happen after the state becomes unattractive to wealthier kinds of life. And they are working hard on achieving it. :)
And she does not understand why people in other states do not like California ex-pats moving in and voting for the same policies that ruined the state they are fleeing from.
Not enough human feces, trying Haiti or Liberia for better feces/foot ratio.
Interesting read. She addresses the hostility against Californians who flee the state because they can no longer afford it. She manages to virtue signal about how immigrants are flooding into the state and area. But she never quite gets how negatively Californians are messing up other cities when they leave California. She thinks they should get a pass.
Reading this article helped me understand somewhat how it happens that so many Californians leave California but manage to go on and support policies and politicians who made California the mess it has become. I wrongly have assumed that they have seen the light and want something better. But so many are still Californians in their thinking. It is a lot like immigrants who come here. Some assimilate, still enjoying their native culture while learning to appreciate American culture. Others live here but never assimilate. Their home is still back in the old country.
Like people who vote a town dry, and then move. ;)
Exactly. A lot of them are moving to small rural towns like the one we live in and then show up at our city council and county supervisor meetings and lament our lack of affordable housing and homeless shelters and all that rot.
I moved out of my home town for the exact opposite reason.
It was dying. Killed by Jimmy Carter’s Stagflation.
When I was a kid my town was a growing industrial town with factories like Chrysler, Autolite and Union Carbide employing working class folk with good paychecks.
But in my teens Carter took office and set about dismantling the industrial might of the United States. In four short years my dad lost his job at Chrysler and my possible future in my home town evaporated.
So, after getting a associate’s degree I got a job on the other side of the state that was both growing and shrinking.
The old industrial part was dying like where I came from, but newer industries were growing.
Years after I moved away my mother asked if I would ever move back. I couldn’t lie to her, I had to say; ‘there is nothing here for me’.
Both parents are dead now and when I visit for weddings and funerals I am still shocked by how that town has faded and shrunk. It still has not recovered after 35 years.
I’ve been there. It is a beautiful place.
I wouldn’t mind living there. But as far as jobs go there isn’t much. At least not when I was there about 20 years ago.
One huge problem is that there is almost no way to build more housing.
Can’t fill in the bay. Can’t go high at a reasonable cost due to earthquakes and, in particular liquefaction.
For all the carping about and crapping on SF, more people want to live there than can afford to. Thus prices will continue to climb. Rent control only exacerbates this.
No one is *forced* to, or has the inherent *right* to live anywhere.
Some of us are really torn.
I’m a second generation San Franciscian; love some things still - opera, weather, world-class food, lots of highly educated people with different world views than my own (I do not find ‘diversity’ threatening as long as I’m not *forced* to respect or participate in it).
But I sure as hell feel more at home, gun on hip, pack or horse loaded for a trip, copy of Constitution in pocket, in the parts of America where no one is ashamed of the Flag or driving a big ol’ Chevy pick-up.
SF has evolved over the decades from a great place to live, to a great place to visit to, currently, a shitty place to avoid at all costs.
I was born in Palo Alto and have lived in California for 48 of my 67 years - mostly in San Diego. My wife and I love this place, but even San Diego is changing and not for the better. Although we still have a Republican mayor, Democrats have a super majority on the City Council and are pretty much controlled by the public employee unions. Taxes are high. Gasoline is expensive. The infrastructure is not being properly maintained. Labor and environmental laws are insane. Parts of the beautiful park one block from my from house have been rendered unusable by the homeless. And, of course, housing is expensive. However, it’s still California. It’s still beautiful. Four of five children are here, and our youngest may we’ll return. Grandchildren are being born. So, we will probably stay after we retire, but even we are considering our options.
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