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Re:Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million res... by gobbluth on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @02:28AM (#3975232)
You, sir, have never been to Brooklyn.
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Re:Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million res... by briandon on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @05:33AM (#3975727)
Please, do step into my handy dandy time machine. We'll set it for thirty years in the future and then step out for a moment and count the number of hip, low-rise brownstones that we can see and then try to pick out the Brooklyner from amongst the other highrises.

I think that you're living in Brooklyn and enjoying it, which is great, and idealizing it without thinking about how Brooklyn is actually changing right around you.

[The Brooklyner is a 51-story skyscraper recently built in Brooklyn: the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyner ]

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