[rivercat]

...its deplorable conditions.

I have to agree with HamiltonJay. I was born and raised in the Bay Area. I've lived here all of my 40 years, except for my seven years of military service during the 90's. Upon my return in '98, I was absolutely floored at the condition of SF. The nutballs have absolutely destroyed, what was once, the most beautiful city in the world. My wife and are in year two of our five-year plan to leave here, once and for all.

Folks, it's not the people of California, or the people of the Bay Area that have done this. It's all these idiot "intellectuals" that have come from somewhere else!

[buwaya]

I read this and look around me and I am most sincerely puzzled. I was downtown this afternoon with my little boy on BART; I went to Macy's, Stacy's, Borders, CompUSA, was disappointed by FAO Schwartz closing, showed him the cable cars at Powell, and had a hotdog with him at Union Square. I was living here in 1991. It doesn't seem any different.
Better in a way. There was no Borders or CompUSA then.
There were bums then too.

One of us is out of our minds.

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: It's all these idiot "intellectuals" that have come from somewhere else!

BINGO!