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Ok I'll bite. I live in Miami, go to San FranCisco often. Many of the historically ethnic neighborhoods in Miami are gentrifying. Wynwood the arts district was
by brianbreslin 12y ago
Ok I'll bite. I live in Miami, go to San FranCisco often. Many of the historically ethnic neighborhoods in Miami are gentrifying. Wynwood the arts district was a historically Puerto Rican neighborhood. Design District which is filled with Prada stores was a historically poor black neighborhood. Overtown is quickly getting encroached by high rise developers because of its proximity to downtown (which is now also getting revitalized).
Little havana is actually getting new construction, but slowly. Little Havana has trailed mostly because the existing housing stock there is all older low slung multi unit housing, and the core of it lacks public transportation. Many of the core Little Havana buildings are technically historically protected, so that limits developers building there. We are seeing mid-rises go up in the area though.
San Francisco is seeing gentrification faster because of market forces dictating that if the money can't go vertical it has to go horizontal and displace the lower-income areas historical residents. SF will need to do something about affordable housing stock soon. Though that gives oakland a huge opportunity to seize that opportunity if they want it.
Last comment: San Francisco "warm" ??? really? maybe Millbrae, but not SF proper.
- batbomb 12y agoMillbrae is often colder than SF, especially compared to select neighborhoods in SF. You need to hit at least Burlingame or San Mateo to get away from the seeping fog of Pacifica/San Bruno/Colma.
- brianbreslin 12y agoI think I was thinking of Milipitas. Which is much closer to San Jose right? I remember last summer going from wearing a sweatshirt in SOMA to it being 90+ in Milipitas the same day.
- eloisant 12y agoYes, Milpitas is close to San Jose. But you don't have to go that far, Burlingame is already pretty warm and sunny. The Bay Area is just microclimates everywhere.
- coolsunglasses 12y ago>I think I was thinking of Milipitas You were thinking of Milpitas. I was freezing my ass off dropping my motorcycle off at the Millbrae BART station when I had that 1-hour-45-minute-each-way commute.
- georgeglue1 12y agoThe half of Millbrae near Burlingame is almost always warm and sunny. The half of Millbrae near San Bruno is sometimes cold and foggy. As someone who grew up in Millbrae, there's definitely some stratification here.
- dilap 12y agoComing from Miami SF probably doesn't seem warm, but coming from Oregon, I assure you it does! :)
- ryanSrich 12y agoWere you around Portland this summer? It was pretty warm...
- dilap 12y agoSadly I wasn't! But I grew up in Ashland & lived in Eugene for years. Those places both get really hot in the summer, and rainy & (frequently) very cold in the winter. SF by comparison is just more or less nice and temperate all year long. :)
- clamprecht 12y agoI had a 10 hour layover in Miami on my way back to Argentina. I walked through Little Havana and it was awesome. Almost everyone speaks Spanish, and there were even a few who didn't speak English, but had probably lived there for decades. (To me this is a plus, not a minus). I asked a guy at the bus stop which bus went back to the airport. "¿Cómo?", he replied? Even at mainstream businesses like Chase Bank, they greet you in Spanish unless you are clearly gringo (as I am).
- paulhauggis 12y agoThis shows you how much cultural acceptance the US has to offer. For example, if you go to France and try to speak English, you will get scoffed at.
- judk 12y agoIt's not USA, it is Miami, which was majorly settled by Cuban refugees. They aren't speaking Spanish to be nice, they are speaking Spanish be a use they are Hispanic. It is like French speakers in Quebec who avoid speaking English. ( but most Quebecois do speak fluent English. Many Miamians didn't)
- PeterWhittaker 12y agoI wouldn't say most - perhaps "many". My anecdata: my wife has a large extended family and quite a few of her cousins and her cousins' kids struggle with English, if they've bothered to learn it at all. It really is quite an insular society. (I've lived there twice, once as a child, then again for the first few years of my child's life; now live across the river in Ontario. Night and day, culturally.)
- juliangregorian 12y agoYeah, whatever. In other parts of the US you can get scoffed at just for having a "yankee" accent.
- brianbreslin 12y ago
- ojbyrne 12y agoThe east end of the city (the Mission, Potrero, Dogpatch) is generally fog free, and thus warmer).
- pjlegato 12y agoWarmer than the west part of the city, but still nowhere near Miami-level "warm".