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SF hasn't been cool since probably the 90's. People flock their, latch on to the manic imprint they burn into their mind in their first few years[1], and proce
by was_hellbanned 13y ago
SF hasn't been cool since probably the 90's.
People flock their, latch on to the manic imprint they burn into their mind in their first few years[1], and proceed desperately fight change. The infrastructure is wildly outdated, the social network can't support the excess homeless, and the building codes prevent the sort of compact, high-density living necessary to allow exactly the sort of lower-income people and families that everyone claims they want to keep around.
[1] as evidenced by my own comment about it not being cool since the 90's, though I think I could wrangle an objective argument out of it by looking at the explosion of housing prices, gentrification, and the sort of Urban Outfitter's commercialized uniformity of the modern "counter-culture".
- dragonwriter 13y agoYou know, in the 1990s, I heard people make the exact same complaints about SF, except that it was that it hadn't been cool since the 1960s or 1970s. Even your footnote about the supposed changes since the 90's that you could "wrangle an objective argument out of" point to "since 1990s" problems that are exactly problems that people were talking about in SF in the 1990s.
- was_hellbanned 13y agoThat's kind of the point.