Peak California

Re:Peak California by temp1928384 on Sunday March 10, 2019 @08:27PM (#19355744)

San Francisco is just...dystopian at this point. In-your-face poverty mingling with obscene wealth, human feces and used needles everywhere downtown/SoMa, decrepit 1 bedroom homes that sell for $1m, very few families/kids, and to make things worse stores that would be open til 10pm in any other city don't seem to stay open past 5-6 (at least in the Castro).

Edit: I thought it was weird for me as a single youngish male to "care" that there are kids and families in a city, but you're reminded when you go to basically any other city how much "realer" a city feels when you actually see families (moms, dads, kids, grandparents) walking around and enjoying each other's company and life in general.

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Re:Peak California by aphextron on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:50AM (#19356957)

It always makes me chuckle to see a work of fiction set in modern San Francisco that treats it like a normal city where normal people live. The NBC show “About a Boy” is a perfect example [0]. It’s hilarious to see just how out of touch most Americans are with what this city has become. San Francisco may have been an actual city in the past, but it’s just a filthy office park at this point.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PytVvfY3jiU

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Re:Peak California by eweise on Monday March 11, 2019 @02:00AM (#19356994)

A lot of SF feels the same as when I lived there in the 90's. I'm mostly familiar with the inner richmond and sunset areas. Most of the same restaurants and stores are still there.

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