FndTheRver
Gawd
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2005
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Everyone on the board here and elsewhere is quick to pick on the SF protesters but if you look at the history of SF, it's filled with protesters. Were it not for protesters, SF would be filled like every other major urban city in America with freeways. I'm a property owner in SF so I know just how expensive it is to live here and I don't begrudge any of the protesters. Gentrification is real, if the developers and rich folk have there way, SF will develop a mono culture because all of the artists, lower wage workers, etc... will be driven out of the city. Just the other day the local newspaper profiled one city planner who makes a shit ton of money compared to city planners in most other US cities was kicked out of three apartments in the span of a few months because the landlord wanted to raise rents.
In short, protesting is part of the culture and soul of SF. I'd rather have that any day than a completely gentrified city.
In short, protesting is part of the culture and soul of SF. I'd rather have that any day than a completely gentrified city.