[Revolting cat!]

FYI, kensington, where this woman lives is a tony East bay suburb of San Francisco, next door to Berkeley, with no traffic to speak of, no crime, no poverty, 95% residential (i.e. very few businesses,) all single family housing at skyhigh prices, hillside views of the bay and Golden Gate. We all should have it this bad!

[MikalM]

Actually, I'd call Kensington an Oakland/Berkeley suburb, but your characterization is otherwise dead-on. I've lived in the Rockridge district of Oakland -- another nice hillside 'hood -- for ten years, and have never gotten used to the whiny terminal-victim mentality that so many of my wealthy liberal neighbors wallow in every time something bad happens in the world.