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Yeah, 'til those wild fires burn your big house on the hill down. Whatever.
Don't hate the East Coast just because you could never make it here.
So many things wrong with this post...
Anyway, Oakland architecturally is a cross between SF and the rest of CA. It has a lot of visually interesting neighborhoods in that there's a mish-mash of styles. Oakland can literally look drastically different street by street, even in the same neighborhood.
Different pictures in the same East Oakland neighborhood (Bella Vista):
^The architectural diversity in the neighborhoods often reflects its racial and cultural diversity... strangely, the more architecturally uniform neighborhoods tend to be more uniracial or at least have a racial majority.
Baltimore wins hands down with better downtown(boy, I like the inner harbor area) and more interesting neighborhoods like Cathedral Hills and few others.
Yeah, 'til those wild fires burn your big house on the hill down. Whatever.
Don't hate the East Coast just because you could never make it here.
Where? What wildfires? Don't see any at all anywhere close to where I live. Guess you're just another typical ignorant East Coaster who thinks the most populous and 3rd-largest US state is nothing more than a 30-mile stretch of beach near LA surrounded by some burning, mud-sliding hills. I pity you.
Tell me, is ignorance really bliss? Because you sure don't sound too happy.
I could make it there just fine if I opted too. But I CLEARLY live in a superior location, so why would I ever even consider it? To be surrounded by a bunch of ignorant, inbred d-bags? Maybe develop a complex of my own like you sorry clowns got? No thank you.
I could dive into some hillbilly's septic tank too if I wanted to, but why would I choose to do that? Sounds more like you couldn't make it out here and now have nothing but hate and envy for us, which is not uncommon at all. Pathetic, but not uncommon. Keep your crappy weather, inbreeding and misery 3,000 miles away from here where it belongs.
Oakland is Oakland. I'm sure it's a great city. Point is Oakland isn't Baltimore and could never be. Nothing against Oakland, but really.
Nothing against it, huh?
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Oakland isn't anything compared to Baltimore. Real!
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The Bay Area does nothing for me. I would rather live in Compton/SCLA/Watts than live in Atherton or Palo Alto. The NOCAL people I have met are *******s.
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I have a cousin who lived in Richmond, Ca and now lives in NOVA. Do you think she wants to go back? EEEEEya, nope. Screw that west coast trash.
Fraud. You're just a pathetic hater, plain and simple. Oakland being located where it is and having the proximity it has to as much as it does takes a fat dump on Baltimore any day of the week. Keep fooling yourself if it makes you feel better. Truth hurts. Deal with it.
Oakland is Oakland. I'm sure it's a great city. Point is Oakland isn't Baltimore and could never be. Nothing against Oakland, but really.
Baltimore can't be Oakland either.
Baltimore will never have the cultural/ethnic/culinary/architectural/scenic diversity of Oakland. Oakland will never have the urban fabric/history/downtown/importance of Baltimore. However, Oakland does offer a very complete downtown, neighborhoods with unique offerings that can't be found anywhere else in the Bay, a very satisfying sports offering, a highly educated populace, a thriving music and arts scene and an absolutely stunning natural setting.
A lot of people underrate that Oakland's business side isn't limited to its downtown... there are 18 business districts that all do a good amount of business.
Along with Hegenberger and Grand Ave. Most tourists have no idea about these areas because finding would require actually venturing into Oakland (gasp)... lol.
Oakland has a very dead and boring downtown with little exceptions like Chinatown, and that's about it. The new Fox theater, which is nice, is absolutely not enough to enliven the area. Loooooong waaaay to gooo!
Oakland has a very dead and boring downtown with little exceptions like Chinatown, and that's about it. The new Fox theater, which is nice, is absolutely not enough to enliven the area. Loooooong waaaay to gooo!
If downtown Oakland is dead then downtown San Jose is a dead zombie.
Where? What wildfires? Don't see any at all anywhere close to where I live. Guess you're just another typical ignorant East Coaster who thinks the most populous and 3rd-largest US state is nothing more than a 30-mile stretch of beach near LA surrounded by some burning, mud-sliding hills. I pity you.
Tell me, is ignorance really bliss? Because you sure don't sound too happy.
I could make it there just fine if I opted too. But I CLEARLY live in a superior location, so why would I ever even consider it? To be surrounded by a bunch of ignorant, inbred d-bags? Maybe develop a complex of my own like you sorry clowns got? No thank you.
I could dive into some hillbilly's septic tank too if I wanted to, but why would I choose to do that? Sounds more like you couldn't make it out here and now have nothing but hate and envy for us, which is not uncommon at all. Pathetic, but not uncommon. Keep your crappy weather, inbreeding and misery 3,000 miles away from here where it belongs.
If East Coasters are all miserable, etc, it sounds like you'd fit in perfectly! What a fantastic, hateful response!
If downtown Oakland is dead then downtown San Jose is a dead zombie.
LOL, I grew up in San Jose. Downtown did not exist when I was a kid. When they opened Light Rail it bypassed downtown and went straight to Great America (oh no, I am dating myself, we went on a field trip to check out the opening of the light rail in elementary school).
I live in Oakland now, and downtown is really improving. The bizarre thing about Oakland is that the commercial districts are generally randomly located. For example, you would never know about Old Oakland. Which is around the corner from "dead downtown" and has tons of really popular night spots. Park Ave, Montclair, Piedmont Ave and College are all in random places away from the freeway. You'd really have to know they exist to go there. Arguably the only easy to find commercial districts from the freeway are the Dimond, Laurel, Grand Lake. Everything else is randomly located. Which is why visitors who exit the airport and head on the freeway think there is absolutely nothing in Oakland.
I definitely think Oakland is one of the most underrated cities around. The other day my dad commented about my neighborhood: this area really reminds me of DC. Depending on which block you are on, Oakland can you remind you of nearly any city and quite a few countries.
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