S.F. apartment rents fell again

Re:S.F. apartment rents fell again by an_aparallel on Thursday February 02, 2023 @01:15AM (#34622808)

Sydney-sider here - Sydney lacks a real art scene, and a culture with its own identity. Outside of down-town, it is awefully same samey with the proliferation of cheap rental housing.

Going out further countryside - things get real nice.

Though - we are pretty lucky all that being said :)

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Re:S.F. apartment rents fell again by inferiorhuman on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:32AM (#34623802)

I always thought Newtown kinda fits that bill.

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Re:S.F. apartment rents fell again by an_aparallel on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:12AM (#34624565)

newtown really used to be super cool. Like everything Sydney though - its much much more gentrified - and has just turned into restaurants and bars for yuppies. 10-15 years ago - the whole inner=west was rife with awesome gigs, international electronic acts, lots of pubs were doubling as places to host electronic - but NIMBYism really got the better of Sydney.

Hard to get a coffee at night in the city even :(

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Re:S.F. apartment rents fell again by inferiorhuman on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:31PM (#34671593)

I was in inner-west Sydney in 2016 for a couple weeks and it certainly didn't feel too gentrified and awful to me – there were still plenty of "counterculture" posters and murals and buskers and whatnot. Electronica isn't generally my thing but I stumbled upon some venue on King St and caught a metal show – so that was nice. And, of course, the Lazybones Lounge.

Outside of 7-11, Starbucks, and Peets (even then COVID's put a hamper on this) It's nearly impossible to get a coffee past mid-afternoon here in the Bay Area.

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