[buwaya]

Oh man !

The Mission is cool, dude.

Get off the train at 24th then I take my boy down the street there and buy pasteles and eat at a Taqeria, and then you can get polboron from the Filipino bakery. Nobody is going to bother you, its fun.

Hey, they're poor, but these people are making money, moving up. Some are moving to San Ramon, making room for the next guy off the plane. So it goes. There are 10,000 Horatio Alger stories there. The Mission is NOT depressing. Hunters point IS depressing. But then I understand it was always depressing. The Castro is just weird.

[Carry_Okie]

I grew up in San Francisco during the 60's and '70s. It was a great place to be a kid, but the predominant culture took an enormous toll on my life for which I'm still paying. I would never raise a child there now. It's just too risky.

We moved out in the early '70s. I lived on the water in Oakland for a decade and that was a unique experience. I still live in the Bay Area but I don't go to the city often. I guess my favorite place is still the Maritime Museum but I just don't like dealing with the creeps.

The gays don't bother me in practice as much as in principle. I've seen just about everything; It's the lies they tell and the damage they do to others to which I object and it's real. They don't make me squeamish no matter how hard they try. What's really funny is how they take it when you feed their crap back to them. That hard "balls out" exterior is really brittle, and beneath it is a self-hatred so deep that either real violence or deep depression isn't far behind.

The bums are just gross, and as a visitor you have to deal with them. It's different as a resident.

I miss the place, but I wish they'd go away.

Why did we ever let the sickos get the good real estate?