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The San Francisco Bay Area is the grittiest metropolitan area on the West Coast. The East Bay cities in particular are very threadbare, as you may observe from Google Street View images at the below-captioned links. Unfortunately, graffiti, potholes and other road rifts, rusted chain-link fences, terribly unkempt homes and yards and a general dearth of trees and shrubbery provide the San Francisco Bay Area with a gritty, tattered appearance that I personally find deplorable. It doesn't help that the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the oldest housing stocks of any metropolitan area in the country, either. The southern San Francisco Peninsula and Marin County are largely immune to the dilapidation, for some odd reason or another.
The San Francisco Bay Area is the grittiest metropolitan area on the West Coast. The East Bay cities in particular are very threadbare, as you may observe from Google Street View images at the below-captioned links. Unfortunately, graffiti, potholes and other road rifts, rusted chain-link fences, terribly unkempt homes and yards and a general dearth of trees and shrubbery provide the San Francisco Bay Area with a gritty, tattered appearance that I personally find deplorable. It doesn't help that the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the oldest housing stocks of any metropolitan area in the country, either. The southern San Francisco Peninsula and Marin County are largely immune to the dilapidation, for some odd reason or another.
The San Francisco Bay Area is the grittiest metropolitan area on the West Coast. The East Bay cities in particular are very threadbare, as you may observe from Google Street View images at the below-captioned links. Unfortunately, graffiti, potholes and other road rifts, rusted chain-link fences, terribly unkempt homes and yards and a general dearth of trees and shrubbery provide the San Francisco Bay Area with a gritty, tattered appearance that I personally find deplorable. It doesn't help that the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the oldest housing stocks of any metropolitan area in the country, either. The southern San Francisco Peninsula and Marin County are largely immune to the dilapidation, for some odd reason or another.
Nothing about this was dilapidated or gritty. Except that one alley in Oakland, kinda. The rest are pretty aesthetically pleasing. But having been to Emeryville and Oakland I can stay for sure they are pretty gritty. Those just weren’t very good examples
The San Francisco Bay Area is the grittiest metropolitan area on the West Coast. The East Bay cities in particular are very threadbare, as you may observe from Google Street View images at the below-captioned links. Unfortunately, graffiti, potholes and other road rifts, rusted chain-link fences, terribly unkempt homes and yards and a general dearth of trees and shrubbery provide the San Francisco Bay Area with a gritty, tattered appearance that I personally find deplorable. It doesn't help that the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the oldest housing stocks of any metropolitan area in the country, either. The southern San Francisco Peninsula and Marin County are largely immune to the dilapidation, for some odd reason or another.
To be completely honest, at this point Id prefer these areas stay as is, then to see the residents get priced out.
It's not worth the bleeding of the city's soul that we've been seeing for decades now. Let them continue making downtown a haven for rich yuppies and techies, but leave others areas alone if their intention is to kick people out.
I think they're all about the same. It depends on the neighborhood. Seattle's metro has both extremes of grit and polished, that's for sure.
Tacoma, Oakland, and Skid Row come to mind..
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