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Xaris posted:I would loving love to live in SF if I could find a 1B that allows dogs (nothing does right now as it's 100% renter's market and isn't going to change for the forseeable future) under 2K but it ain't going to happen. Try Oakland!
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withak posted:Try Oakland! Oakland still isn't SF  I'm okay for now, I just signed a nice renovated 1B in North Berkeley somewhat close to the BART station for 1.5k. It's a pretty good neighborhood to walk my dog around with non of the annoying rear end undergrads wandering around at 2am like my other place near Telegraph had. Next year I'll probably try harder for a place in SF but I can't really justify the extra 5-10k a year it would cost  VVVVV Yep
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enraged_camel posted:It's a gigantic bubble that is growing day by day. Things won't be pretty for new houseowners once it pops. The "bubble" didn't pop in San Francisco or Oakland during the first dot-com implosion, nor did it pop after the 2008 financial crisis. I wouldn't call the market "bubble-proof" but holy gently caress it's the closest thing I've ever seen to something like that.
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CrazyLittle posted:The "bubble" didn't pop in San Francisco or Oakland during the first dot-com implosion, nor did it pop after the 2008 financial crisis. I wouldn't call the market "bubble-proof" but holy gently caress it's the closest thing I've ever seen to something like that. Yeah to need a crash you would somehow need all the big names such as Apple and Google to somehow crash together as part of some big market change. Jerry Manderbilt posted:ANYONE It's almost as if people don't understand the tragedy of the commons such how agriculture gets such cheap water rates compared to the rest the state and such cheap rates discourage improvements such as growing less water hungry crops/upgrading farm capital for better conservation. etalian fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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I believe I've read 2012-13 wasn't such a drastic rent jump in SF as the previous year, so it may plateau soon. It's funny I meet plenty of people "stuck" in their apartment via rent control since it would cost them hundreds-to-thousands of dollars more to rent the same sort of apartment they have nowadays and you'd think they've been there for 10 years or something but it's usually like 3. It's a fun city and pays well if you're in the right industry and don't plan on staying long enough to buy anything (or else are filthy rich). The problem is everyone else. The gentrification of the east bay especially is pretty bad and people just keep getting pushed further and further out.
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I moved from SF to Oakland last year. I wanted a bigger place and in SF that would have meant a 50-100% rent increase (after being in a rent-controlled place for only 5 years) while the place in Oakland is a lot bigger and 15% less. Also I work in Oakland and a 15-minute bike commute is immeasureably nicer (and cheaper) than an hour on Muni and BART. Also there are now 100% fewer gutterpunks making GBS threads by my front steps. From watching craigslist, they rented my old place for about 40% more than what I was paying when I moved out. withak fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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The main reason that Donna Frye is calling for Mayor Filner to resign is because he refused to sexually harass her. (lol if u give a poo poo about SD politics whatsoever.) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Let me show you Danville/Alamo (excluding the Dougherty Valley area)... Having grown up in danville/alamo, I can confirm that it is the whitest part of America I've ever been to. So many angry libertarians, its horrible. One of my parents' friends has the "Don't Tread on Me" tea party flag flying over his oversized Alamo mansion.
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Leperflesh posted:(But, what does this say about the worst CA papers, like The San Francisco Examiner
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Chinatown posted:The main reason that Donna Frye is calling for Mayor Filner to resign is because he refused to sexually harass her.
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Heh, if you think Santa Ana is dysfunctional you should see Long Beach.
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It's just such a drat shame about Filner. He's been a notorious rear end in a top hat his whole life but he was SD's first chance in a long time to not act as a vehicle to enrich local developers.
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JosefStalinator posted:Having grown up in danville/alamo, I can confirm that it is the whitest part of America I've ever been to. So many angry libertarians, its horrible. One of my parents' friends has the "Don't Tread on Me" tea party flag flying over his oversized Alamo mansion. I grew up and was raised in Lamorinda, and leaving that place for college and living overseas was one of the best things I've ever done. It's disgusting how both Lamorinda and Danville/Alamo are so insular and cut off even from the rest of the Bay Area.
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Senor Science posted:I grew up and was raised in Lamorinda, and leaving that place for college and living overseas was one of the best things I've ever done. It's disgusting how both Lamorinda and Danville/Alamo are so insular and cut off even from the rest of the Bay Area. Yeah, tell me about it, but if you raise kids you can't deny that the public schools in Orinda are as good as many private schools elsewhere in the bay area. I'm still planning on raising kids in Oakland or SF if I can help it.
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Senor Science posted:I grew up and was raised in Lamorinda, and leaving that place for college and living overseas was one of the best things I've ever done. It's disgusting how both Lamorinda and Danville/Alamo are so insular and cut off even from the rest of the Bay Area. I grew up in the Mission San Jose district of Fremont (and the high school I went to is really infamous for having absolutely cutthroat academic pressure, and a girl committed suicide this past school year because of it), and yeah, I agree that getting out of the upper-class MSJ bubble is one of the best things to happen to me (then again, going to UC Irvine is a dubious improvement). I'm pretty sure Lamorinda falls in the "only overwhelming Democratic because most of them were moderate Republicans" category. It's really something seeing the demographic changes (as in, an explosion of the Asian population) from Pleasanton to Dublin to San Ramon, though, last time I've been in the area.
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I think the only place whiter than Alamo might be Blackhawk... *edit* nevermind- Wiki says Alamo is 86.9% white, Blackhawk is only 73.6%. CrazyLittle fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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OldHansMoleman posted:It's just such a drat shame about Filner. He's been a notorious rear end in a top hat his whole life but he was SD's first chance in a long time to not act as a vehicle to enrich local developers. Yes, odious personal problems aside, he managed to get the cars out of the Plaza de Panama pretty drat quick without having some kind of major developmental headache for Balboa Park. He also got people out of the Children's Pool in La Jolla to help protect the seals there. He's been a pretty decent progressive force in office, but also has had lots of run-ins with the city attorney and is generally an rear end in a top hat.
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CrazyLittle posted:I think the only place whiter than Alamo might be Blackhawk... These places are all very white, for california, but there are plenty of places in the US which are whiter. You can explore this stuff using the interactive US 2010 census map from the NY times, here. For example: Alamo, CA:  St. Albans, VT:  New England in general is extremely white, of course, but I paged around in Vermont to find a particularly white area. e. The whitest county in California appears to be Trinity County, at 86% white. Every county in Vermont is above 90% white. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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Glass of Milk posted:Yes, odious personal problems aside, he managed to get the cars out of the Plaza de Panama pretty drat quick without having some kind of major developmental headache for Balboa Park. He also got people out of the Children's Pool in La Jolla to help protect the seals there. He's been a pretty decent progressive force in office, but also has had lots of run-ins with the city attorney and is generally an rear end in a top hat. Are there plans for the Plaza or are they just going to leave it as an empty concrete meeting place?
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keevo posted:Are there plans for the Plaza or are they just going to leave it as an empty concrete meeting place? My understanding is that they will be adding trees, benches and cafe tables to encourage pedestrian traffic. There are also going to be tram stops at the plaza to take people who would have otherwise parked there. Found an article on it, with pics: http://www.examiner.com/article/walkers-venture-into-plaza-de-panama
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withak posted:The rental market in SF is insane. If you are looking at a place close to a Google/Apple/Facebook shuttle route then you are hosed unless you can compete with the people offering six months or a year's rent in advance. It isn't unusual for a building to have new tenants paying 2-3x (or more) above other tenants who have been there 10 years or more. I've seen this happen with places without rent control as well... Places with the equal opportunity housing program or section 8 usually get a big boost in subsidised rent. Not so much with the smaller apartment buildings but most of the larger building complexes usually don't get built unless they have a provision in there for low income housing. I know in my building now I'm averaging about $2200 a month for rent in Burbank, but the same unit going to section 8 would be about $800/mo with the government picking up the difference [usually marked up]. I saw this over with the Playa Vista development, they had 3 bedroom units there dedicated for section 8, in fact they wouldn't rent them out to you unless you were low income because they were charging under $1000/mo for the unit, and California an additional $3000/mo. Which reminds me... Playa Vista was kinda interesting, it was Los Angeles last undeveloped spot essentially. I worked near there for years. Dreamworks tried to build a studio lot all along Jefferson where the old Howard Hughes plant/airport was, but they didn't grease the right palms, plus they ran into environmental resistance due to the nearby wetlands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playa_Vista,_Los_Angeles http://www.ballonafriends.org/why.html So dreamworks failed in their bid, and in rolled the condo developers next, and the whole area turned into a huge shitstorm. The developers got support by promising low income units into their development plans, and the project was approved while setting aside some part of the land for "wetlands restoration" (basically building a walking path and a parking lot for the wetlands). The developers approved plan, was changed multiple times, which exploited a loophole where revisions didn't need to go back for county approval. So while the original plan for Playa Vista had lots of green space around buildings, the reality was they quickly changed it to put buildings edge to edge right up to the sidewall to pack in as many units as they could. After all that was done there were additional problems. The site is an native burial ground, sitting on swamp land full of old abandoned oil wells and methane gas pockets, combined with toxic waste left over from the Hughes plant, along with unexploded world war II ordnance.  To add all this, the developers were playing shell games with soil samples actually trucking in clean soil from off site, laying it down, having government testers come in and then scoop the whole works back up once testing is done. The local NBC affiliate did a series on the issues. http://www.saveballona.org/videos-safe-water-safe-gas.html I was pretty much unaware of all this until I tried to move into Playa Vista and wondered why my lease paperwork was 70+ pages mostly dealing with methane gas leaks, and other toxic chemicals with the requirement that I wouldn't hold the developer or landlord liable if my place blew up, or if I got cancer, etc. I ran far away from that complex, and did some research. Oddly enough the 2 rental complexes there were built on the largest gas and toxin bubble of the whole development, with the Electronic Arts LA office being dead center of it along with a fire station. You know its bad when the LAFD off the record wouldn't advise anyone to live there...
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A good friend of mine is an environmental engineer and has said the same thing about Playa Vista being an environmental disaster. Actually, most of the South Bay as a whole is toxic thanks to all of the aerospace and manufacturing that used to be in the area during the "gently caress it, just put it into the ground" days.
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I bike along the creek and boy does it smell awesome.
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enraged_camel posted:Heh, if you think Santa Ana is dysfunctional you should see Long Beach. Really? When i lived in Long Beach it seemed well-run. Then again I was using my Orange County, gently caress the poor experience to judge it. Care to elaborate?
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Geared Hub posted:Ballona stuff
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There's exciting new news from our state universities!UC press release posted:U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been nominated for appointment as the 20th president of the University of California, it was announced today (July 12). My union put out a statement, saying basically what the gently caress? UC Student-Workers Union posted:As student-workers of the University of California (UC), we are shocked and troubled by the nomination of Janet Napolitano for appointment as the President of the UC. Napolitano is clearly unqualified for this position. Moreover, the UC Regents’ selection process shut out public involvement and democratic oversight over this consequential hiring decision. We fear that this decision will further expand the privatization, mismanagement, and militarized repression of free speech that characterized Mark Yudof’s presidency and will threaten the quality and accessibility of education, which must be the first priority for the future of the UC system.
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"Militarized repression of free speech"? My union kinda annoys me sometimes. Although I don't like the Napolitano pick on the surface, either.
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Bizarro Watt posted:"Militarized repression of free speech"? My union kinda annoys me sometimes. Although I don't like the Napolitano pick on the surface, either. Come on, our union reps have always been the more radical types, particularly after the last big leadership election where the less radical elements got thrown out for being ineffective and lovely negotiators. I'll take the rhetoric if it means they'll stick it to the Regents and the UCOP during the bargaining. Napolitano is a completely awful pick, but not just for her really ignorant policy position. It's more that she's completely god-drat clueless on how to run a university with a single campus, much less a system with ten. Look at how crappy Yudof -- a fairly experienced academic administrator -- was with the push to privatization; I doubt Napolitano will be much better. One other thing: In listening to Slate's Political Gabfest in the past month or so, it seems our fair system has been ADVERTISING itself. Is it just me, or does it seem incredibly cynical for UC to be doing ad buys on wankfests for the pundit class when they can barely pay their graduate students and can't stop hiking fees every year? Touting "innovation" and such when it's become blatantly apparent that only the Favored Few campuses are being encouraged to survive is incredibly disgusting.
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Are you sure the ads aren't targeted to out-of-state students? I remember reading a couple years ago that UC had upped its OOS acceptance rate from 10 percent to 20 percent in a strategic move for budget purposes.
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I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't been paying enough attention to the President search, but what's even the rationale for hiring Napolitano? Is she really the best rainmaker that was available? Or do they think that her association with a huge bloated security agency will confuse Brown enough to want to give her a giant portion out of the budget?
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UC San Quentin! UC tuition is cheaper than state prison anyways.
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SporkOfTruth posted:Come on, our union reps have always been the more radical types, particularly after the last big leadership election where the less radical elements got thrown out for being ineffective and lovely negotiators. I'll take the rhetoric if it means they'll stick it to the Regents and the UCOP during the bargaining. Shear Modulus posted:I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't been paying enough attention to the President search, but what's even the rationale for hiring Napolitano? Is she really the best rainmaker that was available? Or do they think that her association with a huge bloated security agency will confuse Brown enough to want to give her a giant portion out of the budget? quote:Los Alamos National Laboratory (or LANL; previously known at various times as Project Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is one of two laboratories in the United States where classified work towards the design of nuclear weapons is undertaken. The other, since 1952, is Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. http://www.spot.us/pitches/337-investors-club-how-the-uc-regents-spin-public-funds-into-private-profit quote:Several very wealthy, politically powerful men are fixtures on the regent's investment committee, including Richard C. Blum (Wall Streeter, war contractor, and husband of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein), and Paul Wachter (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s long-time business partner and financial advisor). The probability of conflicts of interest inside this committee—as it moves billions of dollars between public and private companies and investment banks—is enormous. While some of this mammoth cash exchange takes place in the sunlight of the public eye, much of it is done behind closed doors, and the regents decline to disclose the names and activities of many of their private equity investment partners. "Dark pool" investments of this type are not available to ordinary investors--you have to know someone who manages them--like Messrs. Blum or Wachter. http://www.alternet.org/education/uc-regents-using-public-research-private-gain quote:Universities Selling Out Important Research to Corporate Overseers FRINGE fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jul 18, 2013 |
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Willa Rogers posted:Are you sure the ads aren't targeted to out-of-state students? I remember reading a couple years ago that UC had upped its OOS acceptance rate from 10 percent to 20 percent in a strategic move for budget purposes. Since I doubt that out-of-state students listen to Slate's podcast lineup, I'd be willing to bet that it's meant more for business people (& possibly parents of out-of-state students) and certain federal funding agency employees and their ilk in a bid for funding. Of course, I'm sure they'd love to accept more out-of-state people if it means fat stacks of cash from tuition. (This is the point of my post where I fess up to getting my CA residency via a loophole to get lower fees, but don't worry, working in the Knowledge Mines of graduate school has made up the difference.) e: FRINGE posted:http://www.spot.us/pitches/337-investors-club-how-the-uc-regents-spin-public-funds-into-private-profit SporkOfTruth fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Jul 18, 2013 |
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SporkOfTruth posted:I'm not sure what you're insinuating about LLNL, because not everything they do is for pew-pew MIC purposes.
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No one is upset the UC BoR will now have a mooslim? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=203022706
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Hawkgirl posted:Really? When i lived in Long Beach it seemed well-run. Then again I was using my Orange County, gently caress the poor experience to judge it. Care to elaborate? There's a hospital in the center of LB, if you ever go to. Look out the window at all the urban sprawl/terrible city planning. There are nice neighborhoods and up-scale apartments(in odd places) that will look like orange county. In a low-income neighborhood, the streets are smaller and it'll look like someone tried to stuff as many homes/people as possible in the area. Those streets also suck to drive through when schools start/close. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Shade2142 posted:There's a hospital in the center of LB, if you ever go to. Look out the window at all the urban sprawl/terrible city planning. There are nice neighborhoods and up-scale apartments(in odd places) that will look like orange county. In a low-income neighborhood, the streets are smaller and it'll look like someone tried to stuff as many homes/people as possible in the area. Those streets also suck to drive through when schools start/close. The more packed in areas are probably older developments. I live in a neighborhood in Norwalk that was developed in the late 40's and it has smaller houses packed closer together with narrower streets. Just a few blocks over the streets are much wider and the houses are bigger since it was developed later.
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Trabisnikof posted:No one is upset the UC BoR will now have a mooslim?  The story you linked to said that "some Jewish students" had a problem with it.No one in this thread cares what the student's religion is; we're more concerned about Napolitano, who has more power to draw more evil into the system than some random student serving on the board.
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It doesn't say it in that article, but apparently that regent won't take her seat until July 2014. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-regents-20130718,0,557537.story
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Willa Rogers posted:
Sorry, I was more generally mocking the "controversy". Also, its very ignorant to act like Napolitano is going to "draw more evil", the UC system has been a proud part of the American Evil-Industrial Research complex since the 40s.
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