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?”
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I once got off a bus in the Tenderloin by accident and saw a bunch of homeless duking it out in the alley IN FRONT of city hall WITH THREE COPS standing there.
What a nightmare it must be now.
We were there for a week and we probably walked 15,000 steps per day. We got a really good close-up look of SF. The only area that was reliably clean was Nob Hill.
>The Fisherman’s Wharf area is starting to be just as bad.
Poor SF.
I lived for years in Calfornia and like I say, “California is a beautiful state if you got rid of all the people.”
I am also proud to be part of a liberal community that is trying to be a safe zone for people who would otherwise be persecuted in other parts of the country or the world.
The price of that generosity with other people's money is that the unwilling donors don't get to live in their own homes anymore. The old adage that people don't sell their souls, they give them away, was never more true than with respect to the soul of San Francisco. It's been offered on the altar of shallow, feel-good politics and virtue signalling at someone else's expense. And the author is guilty, she doesn't see it, and because she doesn't see it she doesn't understand the attitudes of people who do.
The problem isn't money, at least not yet. There's plenty of that still but there will never be enough so long as unquestionable social policies guarantee a constant hemorrhage. I wouldn't want a neighbor such as the author either.
So let’s take the “CA is a shithole” out of the equation. She got a marginal college degree which got her a sales job. Followed the feminist guidebook, no husband, no family, no men at all. Chose to live in the most expensive place in the country and wants to complain that things aren’t working out that well. Sucks to be you. You could probably take that life model anywhere you want and you’d still be a failure. Staying single is expensive.
“Author must be paid per column inch.”
Or by the word like old fashioned lawyers.
San Fran is super fun. Tons going on great restaurants. Like any big city
Tenderloin is a hell
Hole but marina cow hollow soma marina etc are all great
I would never live there ( I live in Marin)
So all these losers who write about SF know NOTHING
we went to Glide on Sunday and saw Michael Franti Super fun
Nice liberals.
Like your post.
This is a cogent comment from the site:
The author is a little misinformed if she believes that “there is an apocalyptic amount of people moving into California”. From 2010 to 2018, California has had net inmigration of about 330,000 people, which places it at #9 among the states. Florida is #1 at 2,230,000, Texas is #2 at 1,830,000, and yet no one is talking housing crisis in those states. The author forgets that prices are set not just by demand but also by supply. California has inflated housing prices in spite of its unimpressive inmigation because burdensome rules and regulations (inflated permitting and impact fees, affordable housing fees and set asides, prevailing wage mandates, the coming solar panel mandates, environmental impact studies and lawsuits, etc etc ad nauseum) make it slow and expensive to supply housing. The “liberal” (better to say leftist) community that she is proud to be a part of is the very cause of all the policies that make California unaffordable, so it should be no surprise that it ranks #3 in the net number of people moving out after New York and Illinois (other states with proud leftist communities).
We did the same. Muir woods was so nice, too. We were staying at cavallo point and woman who worked there lived in Stinson beach and recommended it. Town itself was tiny. We didn’t stop. I was singing beach boys as we did that drive.
She followed her cow-girl daughter to a nice ranch in OK. Lasted a few years and returned to CA. Famous line I still quote often "I'd rather be a bag lady in Redding than a millionaire in Tulsa".
I'm not going anywhere and feel pity for those forced to leave. You need to be a like a barnacle - dig in and never let go. If you can just secure a stake-hold, you're good to go. My Ps house in SV has appreciated more than $2.5m over 40 years.
CA real estate values will never go down in prime areas for one simple reason: the best demand the best. Every wonder why sh!t holes like MENA are occupied by low IQ savages? Because no one with the ability to defeat/displace them wants to live there.
Now, reverse the equation: why are the nicest places on earth controlled by the highest IQ and most (militarily) aggressive who have taken the land - by force - from a losing native population? Because if you can take what you want through superior mil tech, force & cunning, you'll do it and get away with it to enjoy it for yourself.
So, when you're a brilliant scientist or engineer, you're not going to settle for crap when you can demand and afford the best. Finance follows the geniuses, and funds the infrastructure (schools, communication, arts) to support a broad development & employment network. And thus, we have the Bay area, SoCal and SD.
Oh, and one last thing: growing up here, it wasn't nearly as nice as it is today. Back in the day when regular middle class could afford to live here, it looked like any other place. Who recalls the Embarcadero freeway running above the waterfront? What about Hayes valley?
Now, all the good places have been snatched up and improved. And it's a one way street, as a ton of foreign money pours in if for no other reason than a vacation home.
Nice comments !
Cheers. Rick
I don’t know what part of OC you were in, but I live near the coast and there is no “sooty gook” here.
Anaheim, right up the road from Disney.
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