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Don't make generalizations from the behavior of the residents of Berkeley! The old joke goes, "People who are too crazy for the rest of the world come to the U
by carapace 5y ago
Don't make generalizations from the behavior of the residents of Berkeley!
The old joke goes, "People who are too crazy for the rest of the world come to the USA; people who are too crazy for the rest of the USA come to California; people who are too crazy for the rest of California come to San Francisco; and people too crazy for San Francisco go to Berkeley."
I'm used to being the weirdest person on any given block, but in Berkeley I don't crack the top ten. Berzerkeley is weird.
- mistrial9 5y agothis is true in the previous decades; post-dot-com boom and biotech growth, pro-sports prep, and aging boomers filling in the residences, not as much. LSD was really very common for a long time in Berkeley; the inventors of MDMA had their memorial services nearby; these are not coincidences.. ridiculous sexual politics and overt hostility towards free speech by non-PC people are more accurate now-a-days IMHO
- nebula8804 5y agoThe hippies grew up and became all sourpuss like.
- mistrial9 5y agohmm maybe partly true since people do sometimes lose patience in the golden years, but instead I think that a lot of shades of hippy moved away long ago to far-flung and lower cost places to live. The homes in Berkeley sell of stunning amounts of money, and many of them do not sell even once in decades. Meanwhile, an emphasis on non-USA students who pay a lot, and serious competitive programs at UCB, it just makes for a lot less elbow room for fun it seems.