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There were lots of tech layoffs, and a lot of people were leaving the city around that time, so it was a _little bit_ tumbleweed-y. The Mission is the most mark
by leothekim 13y ago
There were lots of tech layoffs, and a lot of people were leaving the city around that time, so it was a _little bit_ tumbleweed-y. The Mission is the most markedly changed. Back then it was still a little sketchy with all the heroin addicts and prostitution on happening around Capp. Lower Haight was also iffy. Though it had its fair share of gentrification during the dotcom boom, there were still regular shootings in that area.
- bmelton 13y agoFor those of us that don't live in the city, or the valley, or the west coast at all (though I work in Mountain View), wouldn't anything else be considered an improvement? I've been to the Mission, the Tenderloin, and while yeah, there's the occasionally deranged individual doing the occasionally deranged thing, the situation I saw wasn't anywhere close to what you described, so I assume it's been improved?
- leothekim 13y ago> For those of us that don't live in the city, or the valley, or the west coast at all (though I work in Mountain View), wouldn't anything else be considered an improvement? It was considered an "improvement" even then! And by "improvement", I mean the whole gentrification and character-of-San-Francisco arguments were bubbling around at all the hip tech parties attended by the VPs of XML Operations of every TomDickHarry.com dotcom! From my (very limited) perspective, the Tenderloin actually hasn't changed much at all.
- bmelton 13y agoNow that you mention it, I think it was exclusively the Tenderloin wherein those deranged people were doing those deranged things, specifically, while waiting in line for breakfast at Dottie's (which I find to be slightly overrated, but that's subjective).