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And I wish it was hyperbole

• WalterSear 10y ago
  It has been, for some parts of the city, up until the last few months. Very pleasant and yet unfashionable areas, like the area around the Excelsior, McClaren park and the Crocker Amazon, have been mostly being ignored by hipster and techbro alike. (Prices started rocketing these last couple of months, though, after 5+ years of ~5% price increases) It's rather bemusing, considering all the shit and blood being hurled around. There's, no question, a >lot< of people quietly suffering are a result of the housing crunch in SF. But it's hard to look outside my window and not question how much of the noise is being made by entitled children squabbling over fashionable digs in the same four blocks of the mission. I even had one prospective roommate who asked me to see my mail in order to 'prove' my zip code was actually a San Francisco one.
  • DarkTree 10y ago
    I just moved here a couple months ago and am currently searching for apartments. There is no doubt that most people complaining of the prices are competing for housing in the most desirable areas. However, if an area isn't desirable to live in, it quickly slides into very undesirable, for example, the Tenderloin. Is it livable? Yes, but for people who aren't used to living around a bunch of drugs and homeless people, it can look pretty daunting.
    • WalterSear 10y ago
      Except there are no homeless/sketchy people hanging out/daily crime/excess garbage on the streets where I live. It's just unfashionable, and a few minutes further out. My commute to the Financial District was shorter than my colleagues in the Richmond and Sunset.