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[JezebelDiVine]

San Francisco

im from the bay area in northern ca and am new to the lounge

 

[Caleb Moore]

Must have missed this one...I'm a Californian - born and raised. In fact, it's about time I started getting out more, but I do love it here.

I'm located on the Peninsula, south of San Francisco.

 

[Guttersnipe]

5th Generation Californian here.

My folks have been in Northern California Sense the late 1860's. San Francisco area mostly; Napa, San Rafael, Oakland, San Francisco.

 

[Miss 1929]

looks like three new ones for the Bay Area contingent! Any of you going to the Mobster's Ball on Saturday?

 

[Guttersnipe]

Misfortunately no

looks like three new ones for the Bay Area contingent! Any of you going to the Mobster's Ball on Saturday?

I have a friends birthday function to attend that same evening.

 

[Sydney Loren]

Hurray for Californians. I'm in Riverside County.

 

[ShesSoVaVaVoom]

I've known Patty for a wile... before she was on Myrtle! When she had the little shop on Foothill! They're always so nice to me, every time I go in, they always give me a discount on most things I find!


=R

oh they're great about that, they're such a friendly family, her son and daughter were friends with one of my older brothers, so when I go in it's almost a mini reunion. I don't recall her shop on Foothill, but I do remember when she got the Myrtle shop, and the tall ladder I sat atop painting the railing on the upstairs area, never again lol.

 

[FStephenMasek]

I'm in Mission Viejo, in South Orange County, CA.

 

[Lonn]

Traveling shoes

Currently in California. Escaping the rain in Seattle. Heading south, slow.
Just came from Yosemite. Now in Petaluma. Once around the Bay the next two weeks then...Arizona?

 

[CaddyKid21]

Im in Los Angeles California, on the Westside.

 

[Egerland]

I live in Downey, kind of like being in exile...

About San Francisco, I was there last weekend and had a great time (dinners at Schroeders and Big Four). The streets seemed cleaner than LA, the bums less aggressive.

 

[Imahomer]

Hmmmm.... I never posted here! :eusa_doh:

I was born and raised in San Francisco (3rd generation) and now live in the East Bay city of Danville.

 

[Dexter'sDame]

La La Land here.

 

[jamespowers]

Hmmmm.... I never posted here! :eusa_doh:

I was born and raised in San Francisco (3rd generation) and now live in the East Bay city of Danville.

Nice to see you are still around. Us old families from the area are getting few and far between nowadays.

 

[jamespowers]

I live in Downey, kind of like being in exile...

About San Francisco, I was there last weekend and had a great time (dinners at Schroeders and Big Four). The streets seemed cleaner than LA, the bums less aggressive.

Cleaner and less aggressive?! What part of LA are you from?
Its pretty bad in San Franfreako.

 

[Imahomer]

Nice to see you are still around. Us old families from the area are getting few and far between nowadays.

But we are around. I often run into people who were raised in the city. It's very cool to talk to them and exchange information/stories.

"Cleaner and less aggressive?! What part of LA are you from? Its pretty bad in San Franfreako."

Come on.... L.A. is just like the city.... good and bad areas. The bums in the city are basically downtown, which is why they are always seen by the tourists.

 

[jamespowers]

But we are around. I often run into people who were raised in the city. It's very cool to talk to them and exchange information/stories.

"Cleaner and less aggressive?! What part of LA are you from? Its pretty bad in San Franfreako."

Come on.... L.A. is just like the city.... good and bad areas. The bums in the city are basically downtown, which is why they are always seen by the tourists.

I didn't mean raised in the city. I meant native to California for a few generations in general.

I must have missed the really bad parts of LA I guess. I seem to never miss them when I go across the bay. :eusa_doh:

 

[Dr Doran]

fftopic: I have certainly never seen bums be more aggressive in normal areas of LA (i.e. not Skid Row) than in normal areas of SF and Berkeley. In fact, the bums in SF and Berkeley are the most aggressive I've seen in the USA (again, aside from places like Skid Row in LA). There is a reason why restaurants in the Bay Area do not boast outdoor seating out on the sidewalk like Europe has. It's because bums would come up to the patrons WHILE THE PATRONS WERE EATING and bother them, ask for money, try to sell them their horrid poetry newspapers, etc. They have no shame around here.

 

[Imahomer]

fftopic: I have certainly never seen bums be more aggressive in normal areas of LA (i.e. not Skid Row) than in normal areas of SF and Berkeley. In fact, the bums in SF and Berkeley are the most aggressive I've seen in the USA (again, aside from places like Skid Row in LA). There is a reason why restaurants in the Bay Area do not boast outdoor seating out on the sidewalk like Europe has. It's because bums would come up to the patrons WHILE THE PATRONS WERE EATING and bother them, ask for money, try to sell them their horrid poetry newspapers, etc. They have no shame around here.

LOL... Well, I guess it all depends on your point of view and what you're used to. I can't ever recall seeing a bum in a "normal" area of San Francisco.

I really don't think S.F. has any type of lock on bums, nor do they have bums that are more aggresive than any others I've seen in cities like L.A., Chicago, New York, Cleveland, etc..

They certainly don't have as much outside seating in S.F. as other places I've been, but then again I had to tell a bum to take a hike when I was eating at an outdoor cafe in Paris.

 

[jamespowers]

fftopic: I have certainly never seen bums be more aggressive in normal areas of LA (i.e. not Skid Row) than in normal areas of SF and Berkeley. In fact, the bums in SF and Berkeley are the most aggressive I've seen in the USA (again, aside from places like Skid Row in LA). There is a reason why restaurants in the Bay Area do not boast outdoor seating out on the sidewalk like Europe has. It's because bums would come up to the patrons WHILE THE PATRONS WERE EATING and bother them, ask for money, try to sell them their horrid poetry newspapers, etc. They have no shame around here.

Ok, now that you add Berkeley, that 's a different story.
Remember the bum that had the nerve to berate us for smoking outside a restaurant and then even worse, continued on to ask us for money afterward! :rage: Yeah right guy, I really feel in the mood to give you a buck now. :rage:
If you had outdoor eating around the Bay Area they would not only ask for money. They would ask for food off your plate! That's why they don't have seating out on the sidewalks. Geez, don't get me started.