Best downtown neighborhood for 43 single professional male.

[shmoov_groovzsd]

Originally Posted by Pedro2000

Marina District, Gaslamp, East Village, etc are all close to one another. You could walk from one to the other in a very short period of time. I don't even know what they consider the 'real marina district' because most of that is a park, big hotels, the convention center, toursits, etc. You have the condos and apartment complexes, but are they really a part of the marina? You won't get some bay view unless you live in the Marriott or Hilton and so on.

The CCDC no long exists and in its place is Civic SD. At least this is where I learned where the dividing lines were when I lived there.

This map lays it out.

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[tonyinsd]

Pedro, all due respect, but when did you live downtown?

That Albertson's you're talking about? They're putting in two new apartment complexes right next to it. And as for not going east of Sixth, you sure you would describe M2I or Strata or Icon as right next to a seedy area?

The East Village you describe isn't the East Village I walk through every single day. Tent cities? I've seen homeless people lying on the streets -- part of the downtown landscape not just here but in any city -- but no tent cities. There are fenced off vacant lots, but East Village Green is going in at one of them and another of them is going to have a new retail/residential development put up.

The East Village is where the rest of downtown was 20 years ago. It's gentrifying, but not there yet. But with the law school already open, the new library scheduled to open, and new developments going up, it will be there soon enough.

As for paying a $20 cover and drinking $20 drinks, I've never paid a dime in cover. I have paid $20 for drinks, but it was for two of them.

Also, I used to live right behind Dublin Square and Fluxx and I could sleep just fine at night. With the patio door open. Pantajalitwist can attest to this. As can the people who were my neighbors -- most of whom, by the way, were not 20 somethings looking to relive their college days.