However, I can say with 100% confidence that the city has become less interesting and more homogenous since 2008. Many of the things that I found culturally int

However, I can say with 100% confidence that the city has become less interesting and more homogenous since 2008. Many of the things that I found culturally interesting in San Francisco have been pushed out by the skyrocketing costs of living here. Could you perhaps list a few of these "culturally interesting" things that existed in the pre-2008 period? Because I am left puzzled as to what was so vibrant back then. I have lived on and off in the Bay Are since 2001 and in SF since 2005 (in Potrero ,Lower Nob not Tender-Nob. Hell no! Not Tender-Nob. If you think it is a cesspool now, you should have seen it back then). Whenever I read "culturally interesting", alarm bells go off because it is usually a couched way of culture peddlers saying, culturally interesting to us - the few dozen scenesters who are so firmly ensconced in this made-up brand of stylized misfitdom. These non-tech scene people whose coolness is threatened by the addition of new recruits (and heaven forbid they be upwardly mobile technology workers) that they actively shun all outsiders, who are trying to be "more involved in city life" and "start participating in city life." When they say that we should be "more involved in city life", what they really mean is that you should fork over more of your hard earned dollars to preserve the culturally attractive blight and color of the city, so that they could continue to make merry, uninterrupted while we sit on the outside, looking in, but never really welcomed or accepted.