The Great San Francisco Bubble (FreeRepublic Mentioned)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | day, May 9, 2003 | Mark Morford

[buwaya]

Its where you go and what you expect.

It is in my eyes very beautiful, though not well run.

[buwaya]

Ahem - you are boycotting the place for the sake of a couple of punks on a weekend trip from Eugene, OR ?

There are 750,000 people here, with nearly all of which you would never have a substantial argument. The place has more than its share of eccentrics, but hey, the rest of us aren't chopped liver.

I don't know about federal money, but the dot-com crash was THE source of the current problems, and I doubt the Feds under whoever could have done anything about it, or were feeding the bubble. SJ and the Penninsula are far worse off than SF, BTW, and were always more conservative. Some perspective is due.

[AndyTheBear]

The author screams about how intolerant and xenophobic the rest of America is...while dripping with intolerance and xenophobia for the rest of us.

Anti-progressives want to burst that bubble?

Lets make a deal..keep your nacistic hate filled bubble, as long as it is a safe distance from our children.

[vikingcelt]

It's here you go and what you expect. It is in my eyes very beautiful, though not well run." You're right. A great deal of that beauty is still there. I just find it incredibly wrong that that most wonderful of cities had to be taken over by people with no respect for themselves and no respect for the City. I still see it as it was 30+ years ago before the gays took over and the homeless trashed the streets and threatened the tourists.

[vikingcelt]

The place isn't that bad. Even at its worst its no different across the bay, like by Lake Merritt". Well I would say that it's a lot worse than "like by Lake Merritt". The last time I was in SF was when I was still living in Oakland. We had gone over to SF by bus to go to a concert and spend the night in a hotel. When we went back to Oakland the next day we were exclaiming about how Oakland seemed like "Paradise" and it did. There are not hordes and hordes of homeless on the streets of Oakland and downtown Oakland is a lot more pleasant place than downtown SF.

[.38sw]

I wish I could have seen it 30 years ago. There are beautiful buildings there, but it's hard to enjoy the sights when you have to watch where you're stepping. To each his own, I guess. I don't enjoy going there. And I avoid places like Oakland and Richmond, as well. I guess I'm a bigot.

[Grampa Dave]

I started my boycott when the street bums started taking over. Then the hatred from the your beloved city and the Gayrhonicle during the 92 election towards Christians, Republicans and conservatives was shown 24/7 on tv, in the GayRhonicle and on the streets.

My poor wife talked me into taking her in for a play the day, GW was sworn in. We could not get a cab from the hotel where we had lunch and had to walk down Market street to the theatre. Later we found out that the cabs were told not to be in that area due to the mob protesting GW being sworn in.

Your friends were out in force, and we were lucking to get the theatre. Fortunately afterwards we got a cab back to the hotel where we caught the chartered bus back home. I have not been back since, nor will I. Those thugs and misfits weren't from Eugene, Oregon. They live in SF.

Your worthless mayor and DA will not protect you or visitors so I stay away. When you take back the city, let us know!

[Plutarch]

That's about as clever as it gets, slam-wise. The poor things. They try so hard).

Jeez. His whole piece is entirely devoid of cleverness, but FreeRepublic posts are often wickedly clever. Perhaps he is too busy preening to notice.

[BossLady]

"the ecstatic 69 to the nation's droning missionary position."

So, it's basically all about sex, huh!!!! :o

If he and other San Frandiscans want their bubble....go ahead...have it! But, don't ask the rest of us to hop on the Rainbow Trolly for a fantastic voyage to socialism.

[finnman69]

Does Morford have nightmares like this?

It might explain the bedwetting.

[Liz]

A great outline for a movie. You ought to submit it under the title "San Francisco on My Mind." LOL

[HamiltonJay]

You need to ride the caltrain if you don't think there are tent cities there... that's all you see when you come into the city... soon as you start getting close to the final stop, tents everywhere.

[NormsRevenge]

What was it all about?

Mostly drugs and "free love" .. enlightenment, the age of aquarius and all that..

[Sir_Ed]

"The San Francisco that was the greatest city ever. The San Francisco that was MY city when I was young. The San Francisco that I wept over when I had to leave because it had changed so much it was no longer recognizable."

Yup. The San Fran of Stan Delaplane, Charlie McCabe and Herb Caen. Even the hungry i. Incredible place...

Ed

[NormsRevenge]

North Beach ;-)

[Pahuanui]

The most close-minded, intolerant city I have ever visited is Frisco (a.k.a., San Francisco). What would you expect from the birthplace of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple?

Riiiiiight. Mmm-hmmm. What would you expect from someone who didn't know that the birthplace of Jim Jone's People's Temple was Indianapolis, IN?

The cult-like attitude still prevails. Somebody pass 'em the organically-correct Kool-Aid.

You wouldn't know San Francisco if it were pointed out to you on a map.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Not that Italy wasn't beautiful and culturally intoxicating, she said, but that it was, as she was painfully reminded, sexist as hell, homophobic as Rick Santorum, intolerant as Utah, what with the example of my friend's young shy half sister casually molested and possibly worse by a drunken Italian suitor and then everyone pretty much shrugging it off and brushing it aside and asking what she did to deserve it and no one standing up for the girl or smacking the dolt with a brick before castrating him with a rusty pizza cutter. Just one example.

Culturally intolerant!!! He's a bigot!! Should I write a letter to the editor of the Chronicle?;-)

[nickcarraway]

YES

[Sir_Ed]

"The idea that SF is a utopia is comical. 300k a month just to clean up after the homeless.... Its effectively a city full of people who don't believe in personal responsibility.. and it shows. "

Yup, and that judge just ruled that voters can not choose the amounts that homeless people are paid each month, and struck down Gavin Newsom's Care Not Cash law...amazing.

Hopefully Newsom'll ride the outrage over this into the mayoralty.

Ed

[cibco]

ROFL!!!