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popvulture wrote:Speaking of the dude, read this earlier. Interesting take on the whole thing.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultur ... -the-point

popvulture wrote:Speaking of the dude, read this earlier. Interesting take on the whole thing.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultur ... -the-point

popvulture wrote:Speaking of the dude, read this earlier. Interesting take on the whole thing.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultur ... -the-point

I know people are frustrated about gentrification happening in the city, but the reality is, we live in a free market society. The wealthy working people have earned their right to live in the city. They went out, got an education, work hard, and earned it. I shouldn’t have to worry about being accosted. I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day. I want my parents when they come visit to have a great experience, and enjoy this special place.

A) You’ve been here for three years, meaning you don’t know a whole lot about what’s been happening in San Francisco because you don’t know what it was like before you got here. And when you got here, you didn’t care to find out because you moving here was not about discovering a new city, it was about entering a new world that was going to cater to your every whim. Yes, we the people of San Francisco who have been here for decades, are catering to your new lives. Those who are not in tech have become servants to those in the tech industry. Realize that.
You writing an open letter assuming you know anything about your community is a crock of shit because your community is one of self-important techies and ping-pong gathering friends who like wine bars and love to have everything handed to them with a disposable waste of a garnish and a cloth napkin. Go fuck yourself.

B) The tech industry swept into San Francisco just a few years ago around the time you did and people who suddenly had $10,000 a week incomes did not think twice about paying a $9,000 rent in the Mission and the Tenderloin, some of the dirtiest neighborhoods in the city. Landlords got greedy because you all said, “yea sure, I can afford that, it’s only one week’s worth of my income.” You lacked common sense to determine the apartments weren’t worth that much and didn’t have the decency to consider that the rest of the city couldn’t afford it. So suddenly an apartment that cost $1200 went up for the average person to $2500, $3500, $5000, and up and up. We could no longer afford it. Those who could salvage enough money from their deposits to put money down on rent in Oakland, did so. Those lucky enough to have rent control stayed out of spite. Those who had neither ended up on the street. Now rents are so high for everyone, not even businesses can survive. All of people’s favorite local restaurants, theaters, community centers, toy stores, churches, venues and especially long-standing bars have closed due to this. And what about all of those fires the last two years that burnt down businesses and were replaced by wine bars? To quote you, “I’M WILLING TO BET THOSE WEREN’T COINCIDENCES.”

D.o.S. wrote:http://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-t ... lice-chief

I know people are frustrated about gentrification happening in the city, but the reality is, we live in a free market society. The wealthy working people have earned their right to live in the city. They went out, got an education, work hard, and earned it. I shouldn’t have to worry about being accosted. I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day. I want my parents when they come visit to have a great experience, and enjoy this special place.

This guy has been an SF resident for three years.

This reply, though, is 110% gold.
https://medium.com/@EdnaMiraRaia/open-l ... .qtcwlit8j

A) You’ve been here for three years, meaning you don’t know a whole lot about what’s been happening in San Francisco because you don’t know what it was like before you got here. And when you got here, you didn’t care to find out because you moving here was not about discovering a new city, it was about entering a new world that was going to cater to your every whim. Yes, we the people of San Francisco who have been here for decades, are catering to your new lives. Those who are not in tech have become servants to those in the tech industry. Realize that.
You writing an open letter assuming you know anything about your community is a crock of shit because your community is one of self-important techies and ping-pong gathering friends who like wine bars and love to have everything handed to them with a disposable waste of a garnish and a cloth napkin. Go fuck yourself.

B) The tech industry swept into San Francisco just a few years ago around the time you did and people who suddenly had $10,000 a week incomes did not think twice about paying a $9,000 rent in the Mission and the Tenderloin, some of the dirtiest neighborhoods in the city. Landlords got greedy because you all said, “yea sure, I can afford that, it’s only one week’s worth of my income.” You lacked common sense to determine the apartments weren’t worth that much and didn’t have the decency to consider that the rest of the city couldn’t afford it. So suddenly an apartment that cost $1200 went up for the average person to $2500, $3500, $5000, and up and up. We could no longer afford it. Those who could salvage enough money from their deposits to put money down on rent in Oakland, did so. Those lucky enough to have rent control stayed out of spite. Those who had neither ended up on the street. Now rents are so high for everyone, not even businesses can survive. All of people’s favorite local restaurants, theaters, community centers, toy stores, churches, venues and especially long-standing bars have closed due to this. And what about all of those fires the last two years that burnt down businesses and were replaced by wine bars? To quote you, “I’M WILLING TO BET THOSE WEREN’T COINCIDENCES.”