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Don't you guys have a gigantic homeless problem and activist groups that work to keep the status quo?
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Yup. Here's how it works:
So there's a neighborhood in San Francisco called the Tenderloin, located right in the middle of the city. To its east is downtown, to its south City Hall, to its north and west are nice residential neighborhoods.
Long time ago, this was an industrial area and location of a skid row. As other poor parts of the city were redeveloped, displaced residents moved into the Tenderloin. Many newcomers to the city also moved there since it was cheap.
When awareness of the neighborhood's problem grew, many organizations poured in, ranging from churches to students to governments, to provide social services, be it shelter, food, or healthcare.
Word of the transient paradise travelled far. From up and down the coast and over the mountains, thousands made their way to the Tenderloin. The social agencies tackled the challenge, and with rising economies of scale and a good economy in the city, the programs have gotten better and better, and the numbers coming in higher and higher.
Nowadays, the City has created a program where it helps those from out of town contact family or friends back home willing to provide them a home, and give them bus tickets back.Visit First Cultural Industries
There are reasons why I believe mankind should live in cities and let nature reclaim all the villages with the exception of a few we keep on display as horrific reminders of rural life.-Starchild
Meat eating and the dominance and force projected over animals that is acompanies it is a gateway or parallel to other prejudiced beliefs such as classism, misogyny, and even racism. -General LuddComment
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Agreed.Originally posted by Pekka
Gayest American city
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Ron Burgundy begs to differ.Originally posted by Pekka
Greatest American city
And when I lived in SF The city govermnet did so many bizarro things it made my head spin. The current debacle with the Iowa indicates to me it hasn't changed much.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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Now,I don't know.
But some years ago,was one of the most beautiful towns I saw.I believe me I already saw several.
Best regards,Comment
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the best city government move happened a few years ago, when Willie Brown was mayor. He left for asia I think, and left in charge a city councilman (whom I think was Chris Daly) who then went ahead and nominted his ally to a key post (which was vacant at the time).
a real coup d'etat!
King willie had to cut his trip short."Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito MussoliniComment
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I was in SF last Fri/Sat. The loudspeaker at the airport kept telling me to report any suspecious activity I observed. I was in San Francisco, for cryin' out loud!!
There's nothing else but!
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I went there 4 times while in the Navy, I had fun there every time. And in a heterosexual kind of way.
ACK!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!Comment
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Be careful when driving in the Castro : you might get rear-ended!"Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito MussoliniComment
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never been to SFTo us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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I've only been to Silicon Valley. When I think of San Francisco, I think of crazy, "out there" kind of leftists and unreasonably high housing prices.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I think they have a good punk legacy with the Dead Kennedys (read Lefty Wackos), and the whole Harvey Milk murder with the Twinkie Defense makes me think that they used to have a screwed up legal system.Comment
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I don't think most people know what the "Twinkie Defense" actually was. It's not as if the argument was that twinkies drove him to murder.Lime roots and treachery!
"Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake TungstenComment
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San Jose ain't much different... well, more MexicansI've only been to Silicon Valley. When I think of San Francisco, I think of crazy, "out there" kind of leftists and unreasonably high housing prices.Comment
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How does that compare to Sincinnati?
, chuckle, chuckle.
Last edited by DanS; February 27, 2006, 12:22.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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