Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments

Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by seanmcdirmid on Monday May 16, 2016 @08:50PM (#11710670)

San Francisco's wooden victorian are very beautiful, it also has a lot of "western American port city" architecture in tact, as you say. Many of us find that beautiful compared to old European cities that have their own very different histories. "The most beautiful city in the world" is most definitely an exaggeration, but it definitely has its own charm.

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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by Retric on Monday May 16, 2016 @09:47PM (#11710858)

IMO, San Francisco is an ugly city. It's got that smattering of high rises in a mostly low rise city that just screams slums in most of the world. I mean there is a reason most photos are of a bridge not the buildings.

I accept everyone has different aesthetics. But, the city just screams fake to me without any of the organic charm an old city or the brutal asthetic of say NY.

PS: I guess you can call it unique...

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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by seanmcdirmid on Monday May 16, 2016 @09:57PM (#11710898)

Not just bridges, I mean, SF has stuff like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_ladies#/media/File:Pai...

Linking into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_ladies:

> "Painted ladies" is a term in American architecture used for Victorian and Edwardian houses and buildings painted in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details. The term was first used for San Francisco Victorian houses by writers Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen in their 1978 book Painted Ladies - San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians.[1]

Such housing is virtually everywhere in SF if you bother walking out of the urban core. I used to lose myself for hours just wandering around SF neighborhoods.

I really wonder if you really know what slums really are. I live in Beijing, a high rise city by any definition, which has slums galore (though not the ones found in India). Even the tall buildings are dingy, lack character. I also lived in Lausanne for a couple of years...supposedly a nice city, but it definitely had its share of grit and urban fake-ness. Especially high rise social housing (say in Renens), which, while not bad, definitely had a feeling of sluminess to them.

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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by kafkaesq on Monday May 16, 2016 @08:59PM (#11710699)

"One of the most" is what I said, not "the most."

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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by seanmcdirmid on Monday May 16, 2016 @09:52PM (#11710875)

Sure. I was just stating that the exaggerated point would have been...an exaggeration, not that this is the point you made. Sorry for the confusion.

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