SF Sucks

In the past week I've heard a couple of scathing indictments of San Francisco. Here's one from Nate's blog and the SF Weekly, an alt weekly paper which takes on the bullshit, limo-uber-liberal crowd of SF, who delightfully ignore important, big, issues that would concern a true liberal (like, say public schools, which the whites have all but abandoned) in favor of feel-good, yoga and volvo solutions to big time problems.

And the other day I saw an art installation that was a documentary voice over called "Virus" about the dot-comers coming into SF, driving the rents to outrageous prices, forcing artist communities to move from lofts b/c the dot com's wanted "hip" spaces to make their invisible and short-term money....

The thing about SF that no one wants to acknowledge is that it is an outrageously expensive place to live. This affects so much of life there, you have to either work a lot, work at a job you don't like because the money is good, live in a shitty apartment, go into debt, or not live the city lifestyle - sushi and all.

I hate to be a hater. I love the place deep down. But that's why I hate seeing it go down the tubes...everyone who doesn't know better "loves" San Francisco, but I know how the people live in that city, and it doesn't strike me as a wonderful place, for anyone but the super rich or insane-O hippies.