What happened to San Francisco and the bay area? (San Diego: fit in, lease)

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People are different everywhere, but one thing everyone everywhere agrees on is that "the past was much better and the future is going downhill". I don't know what drives this, but I would venture to guess that selective memory retention. When I look back at my college days, I mostly remember the good times I had. However, if I think really deep I tend to remember that not everything was good. I didn't have money, I had to work odd jobs, I didn't have the freedom. But on a nice sunny day, with looming work deadlines, when I am physically and mentally stressed out I tell myself "the past was so much better" (Bay area is fine)

[Go9ers]

Originally Posted by IceCold415

When I was younger the San Francisco was a great place to be, nice music scene, great night life/party scene beautiful women an all around hella chill place to live and grown up, but now that I'm back living here after a few years away it feels like its gone to ****. It seem like everyone now is two faced and phony I can't be the only one that feels like my home is turning into an terrible L.A clone. At first I blamed gentrification then I blamed the hipsters now I cant stand the city anymore I'm looking at apartments in Oakland. The bay area used be know for its originality now its like everywhere else.

Yer good in my book

[Go9ers]

Originally Posted by gone down south

What happened? You got old.

The kids today are living in their own Golden Age and will some day bemoan all the changes that are about to take place to what they consider a wonderful and fantastic city.

You dont get it

[andyadhi01]

Originally Posted by rah

While i agree there are a few too many yuppies in SF, calling the city "yuppietown" is almost the same as calling Oakland "ghettotown" or something. There's some truth to the statement, but there's lots of exaggeration in it as well.

Well any part of SF worth going is pretty much "yuppietown" or "touristtown"... And the rest crime-ridden, run-down areas better be avoided!

[andyadhi01]

Originally Posted by mayorhaggar

I like the fun parts of the Inner Sunset and Inner Richmond, but they're just too damn cold for me.

Well the yuppiefication of inner sunset is in full swing... Fancy pet store, yoga studios, expensive restaurants are slowly invading the place... In another 5 years it will be a cold and foggy version of Marina-

[mileena]

Originally Posted by 415_s2k

"You can never go home again," they say...

Wrong! According the the Bon Jovi song:

"Who says you can't go home
There's only one place they call me one of their own
Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home
Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact
There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright"

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by mileena

Wrong! According the the Bon Jovi song:

"Who says you can't go home
There's only one place they call me one of their own
Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home
Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact
There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright"

Guy's from Jersey. More of a place to leave than to return to.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by IceCold415

When I was younger the San Francisco was a great place to be, nice music scene, great night life/party scene beautiful women an all around hella chill place to live and grown up, but now that I'm back living here after a few years away it feels like its gone to ****. It seem like everyone now is two faced and phony I can't be the only one that feels like my home is turning into an terrible L.A clone. At first I blamed gentrification then I blamed the hipsters now I cant stand the city anymore I'm looking at apartments in Oakland. The bay area used be know for its originality now its like everywhere else.

Los Angelesssssss Del Norte!

(Herb Caen limited this designation to the South Bay, but I don't! )

[gone down south]

Originally Posted by Go9ers

You dont get it

OK, Gramps, I'm sure it was all lollipops and unicorns back in your day.
Isn't Matlock on now?

[hgnmx]

SF is a very small city... 7x7, which is tiny compared to my hometown of Richmond, VA.
Gentrification and higher costs are a given with a city that small and with that much of a demand to live there. Face the facts, it's the 2nd most dense city in America behind NYC - and everyone knows how expensive it is to live there.