Great point. I have a few friends I grew up with who moved out to SF. Some skate and some work in the skate industry. I visited in July, and I was taken aback b

Great point. I have a few friends I grew up with who moved out to SF. Some skate and some work in the skate industry. I visited in July, and I was taken aback by the gentrification/rent issue in the city. I should have anticipated it because I knew what gentrification was (as in I read about it), and I knew SF's population was changing. Don't get me wrong--I'm not "taking a side here." I'm merely explaining that I was naive to the whole issue, but many conversations I had over that 10-day trip at least touched on it (especially at Zeitgeist--great bar, btw). Further, I stayed in The Mission and there was a ton of street art dedicated to the gentrification issue/"preserving" the city. I think it's a really tough problem that doesn't have an easy solution. People and places change over time. Some welcome the change, whereas others feel that the great city they came to is slipping away from greatness.