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What We Already Knew About San Francisco


               
2013 Dec 20, 12:03am   16,578 views  75 comments

by retire59   follow (1)  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/20/rich-people-cities_n_4467155.html

Few cities in the U.S. embody the growing divide between rich and poor quite like New York and San Francisco. In just the past 20 years, both have changed from economically diverse melting pots to exclusive playgrounds for the rich. The change is clear in striking new visualizations from the U.S. Census Bureau, crunching data from its latest American Community Survey of population and income. In each of the pictures below, the image to the left represents median household incomes in 1990 ("before"), and the image on the right is 2012 ("after"). Darker shades correlate with higher income, and brighter...

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1   retire59   @   2013 Dec 20, 12:05am  

And the Rich can have it....after 30 years, we are leaving and cannot wait....

2   MAGA   @   2013 Dec 20, 12:05am  

Many parts of the City smell bad. Not sure why that is. I would only go into town when I had a business appointment. Don't get me started on Bart, :-/

3   retire59   @   2013 Dec 20, 12:16am  

It is also so Overated! We have the money to enjoy ourselves, but the restaurants have become awful and overpriced. The attitude among the city is very arrogant and not friendly like it used to be. We watched it change over the years. It used to be this 'small town' inside a big city, with all the advantages yet very welcoming and very special; little Mom and Pop restaurants and stores that made it unique. One of our favorite stores in a very exclusive shopping district after over 30 years, had its rent doubled and will be taken over by another chain store...if this is what money can buy...you are better off being poor...

4   monkframe   @   2013 Dec 20, 12:27am  

With each wave of money that washes over the Bay Area, the quality of life declines. Working people, artists, craftsmen, small businesses that don't make a huge profit margin, families are driven out to the suburbs or beyond.

5   Robert Sproul   @   2013 Dec 20, 12:38am  

retire59 says

after 30 years, we are leaving and cannot wait....

Where are you going?
This is my current dilemma. This same Affluenza has infected most of my favorite places, and the places not affected have few services.

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