Man this shit crazy

Alex Hand Miller it sucks because I live in Daly City and have dreamed of living in the city my whole life, but now I'm not sure if that would be the smartest move.

"I am a professional musician. Musicians are making the same wage as they were 20 years ago, and the cost of living has inflated 500%." A fellow musician here. Well, I did get my bachelor's degree on Clarinet performance but having a hard time living. I don't live in SF but I live in LA and I just wanted to say that it's hard for artistic types like us because like you said, it's hard to live in the heart of the city because it's so fucking expensive even though that's where all the fun gigs and cultural display is. So, yeah. Just keep on doing what you do and I'll do what I do haha

It's true it's cheaper in rural areas where there are less gigs, cultural events, networking opportunities, etc, and I'm wondering if there is going to be a mass exodus of creative people to the middle of nowhere like Oklahoma where you can buy a house for $50k. All it takes is a group of a couple dozen artists to "colonize" a neighborhood and start producing art to put online. There are enough artists around here waiting for there to be a cheap and fun place to live where artists can network and do what they do.

Alex Hand Miller It'll be pretty much Burning Man but people actually live and go to work there lol

Knowing Karley, the burrito is the least crazy story she's ever heard.

"Fluff Piece"

lmao, I was thinking the same thing. She’s a journalist/reporter and that’s seriously the craziest story she’s ever heard, get the fuck out of here with that lie. LOL

@@rev.robertjones1553 who is special needs, i don't get it

Well Imo, that part actually was a perfect example of wealth equality. And how nouveau-riches don't get involved in the fight against it all. While she was trying to talk about homelessness and gentrification and changes in the section of the city, he started talking about how great his burritos were and how somebody flew in just to buy some and flew back on the same day. She said that's effed up, he totally didn't get it. He was clueless. but I understand where she was coming from. So this guy bought the building back in the day oh, good for him. And what if he didn't? He might be on the street with the rest of them. That's why the market without checks and balances leads to terrible things. One of which being large amounts of homelessness.

I was gonna say maybe it's because neither Chinatown nor Japantown borders Market Street, but then they covered Haight-Ashbury so there goes that excuse. Yeah, I can't believe they left out the Asian-American community... such a huge part of SF's history and culture.

mushy85 Not gonna lie, I just read your post twice and I don't really get how any of it pertains to Asian-Americans in SF.

MotionPictureMuse I ain't crazy

so what?

My dad grew up in the sunset (western aves of SF) in the 50's and 60's and there were nearly no Asians living there. Probably a low single digit percentage. Now they make up 80% of the area or more

EXACTLY!!!! This is the biggest lie, that most of these people are displaced locals. If you suddenly lose your apartment, you move somewhere else you can afford. You don't just pitch a tent, shit on the street, and start doing drugs. That's not what normal people do. And for the numbers of homeless people in SF, you're basically assuming that's what every single person who loses their apartment is doing.

Lala Baddie bum ass.

Ya im real sure being homeless there is "ez" living😑😑 I'm dieing to get there 🙄😑

I love this honesty and transparency coming from someone who KNOWS what's going on as you lived it yourself. Thanks for sharing from that side.

It's Awesome

yeah. that was unexpected

+Astronaut Cult he was real, Vice showed it so I don't think they're to blame exactly

+Astronaut Cult Andre Nickatina keeps it real, I'm sure they edited out most of his other thoughts of his experience as a kid going to Market.

I liked that too

Rent control is the main thing keeping non-wealthy people in SF (public housing and SROs help too). 70% of the city's rental units have it, and most of those residents wouldn't be able to afford the city if their rent was suddenly raised to market rate (which is obviously what would happen if rent control got removed tomorrow. Prices might stabilize or even drop eventually, but before that happens, prices would skyrocket, and working/middle class residents would get evicted at much higher rates). Rent control may not be perfect, but when people talk about getting rid of it, they're basically talking about kicking out half of SF's population. And don't pretend that it's impossible to make enough money to maintain your property and make a living, without price-gouging people. There's absolutely no reason why an SF landlord should charge $5000 for a studio or whatever, except that they know some rich motherfucker will pay for it. On one hand, fair enough, it's their property. But on the other hand, that kind of greed is destroying thousands of lives, and is pushing out a lot of the residents and things that attracted many people to SF in the first place, while attracting an extra amount of wealthy assholes who look down their nose at the less wealthy locals (that causes some anger, to say the least). It all comes down to what you value most: your bank account, or the community as a whole. Furthermore, SF has had rent control for decades, it's no secret. So if a landlord doesn't like it, fine...go buy a modern building that has no rent control, or go be a landlord somewhere without rent control instead. No one's forcing anyone to own property in SF. What we need is more housing. A shit ton of it...the lack of an adequate housing supply is the main force behind this bullshit. The tech boom just added fuel to the fire. Jet fuel. Plus some napalm.

The Japanese in the Fillmore were centered in a specific part of the Fillmore, a part not even referred to as the Fillmore anymore. North of Geary, South of California, stopping at around Franklin on the east and Divisadero to the west. They could have mentioned the Japanese influence, but the area I just described is even further from Market street than the other areas they covered that technically arent on or near market. La Taqueria is on 25th & Mission and they reported on it for some reason. Blacks didnt move in after Japanese left, they were here and even more came when houses went vacant.

Yup. That's why Japan Town is right next to the Fillmore.

dburrr: Most black people in SF (and the Bay Area/most of California) arrived during WWII to work in the shipyards, which happened to coincide with all the Japanese people getting kicked out and sent to the camps. SF only had a few thousand black people before WWII.

Fillmore? Shit hole.

punch nazis San Francisco only has 50,000 black people today in a city of 875,000.

y

+Robert Haarlem A Chinatown, by definition, is outside of China.

to be fair, chinatown doesn't run through market st lol

jesus123510 neither does Fillmore.

They were too busy push their perverse proclivities to give credence to much of anything worth recognizing.

His name is Donald Trump get rid of Nancy Pelosi and no Willie Brown School of politics that rules San Francisco and maybe let the police do their job clean up all the drug addict blood pus urine excrement and maybe in 20 years things will change cuz it took 40 Years of liberal policies

@@jasonsoulie1337 and then we'll be like all those red state shithole cities like Birmingham AB; no thanks, you stay where you are and just don't visit here.

@@pwp8737 Lol what are you going on about?

+Iron Fist good point!

Asian population is huge everywhere dude.

+Open the doors to Rapture they are the race with the most numbers but most of them are in asia they are only like 7 percent of the population in the us

Liberal media outlets don't care for or respect Asian Americans. You never ever see Asian Americans playing the victim card so the left are not interested in their community

They are entitled to be in the conversation 💯

ya well ya know, there's a lot of hype around la taqueria, their burrito's are ok but not so fantastic as everybody says, and to be fair I would rather get mine from el toro or el faro (with or without rice). If i could afford the plane ticket, i would go get a super beef et el toro's right this moment

Thank you for saying this.

Shits like living in a corpse, very sad

+Spencer Recor basically the definition of a hipster

+Spencer Recor "SHE's" not a woman..

+Jesús Pedroza definitely was far too white. i mean SF has one of the biggest asian populations in the country and they didn't talk to a single asian person!

+Rose E Exactly.. San francisco has the biggest Chinese population in U.S..

Yes, Mission would have been a better, deeper choice, but they went with the obvious.

Geary also runs the length of the city.

Also skipped the Fillmore being a Japanese neighborhood before the WW II imprisonment.

+◯ Advaita WEEEEAAAK

+◯ Advaita these motherfuckers really put LIL FUCKING DEBBIE instead of Mac Dre...you already know some suburban white people put this video together.

Well nickatina was raised in the city. Mac dre was from Vallejo and could be referenced better in Oakland than the city. I still agree he should've gotten mention #Thizzordie

+◯ Advaita did they mention Digital Underground and Tupac? If so, I missed it.

+◯ Advaita that's cause its just about one street in San Fran not the whole Bay Area

madcowdisguise lmfaoooooo!!!

Like...ohmigod.... so impertaaaant... Ah am saaaah thankfal fur... okaaaaah

Karley Sciortino is not a hipster, she is a sexy Goddess !

Is that actual Californian accent that all white people there have?

So much vocal fry.

Rip the city Rip oaklin

Nailed how I felt about it 😂

LOLLL 😂 NAILED IT!! 😅 💪 😎

Lol 😂

+Ben Manton Diamond Dave always rides the 24. He's a bit of a nut job. I remember him once yelling into his cell phone "You're not my girlfriend!"

+Lothar Roberts lol

It's good tho, bro; we don't want more or ANY hype on the Mission (or S.F) for more yuppsters to be moving in. Edit: 3 years later, sorry, haha.

That man was a real ass prophet. His views on the survival of the fittest absolutely blew my mind. Lol

I'm surprised vice let that in 😂

Good!

@@Pumalate77 Not good, this kind of gentrification sterilizes everything and makes everything lame. And as you can see it makes the homeless problem worse.

@@Pumalate77 scumbag

@@JokersAce0 gentrification makes the drug problem worse for sure, somehow. No evidence to say so though, mostly it’s just correlation and your feelings. Lol

@@Pumalate77 Yeah sure pal. Go to LA and see normal looking people, attractive women, et al completely homeless. No drug problem or anything. Gentrification is trash and a bunch of people move into newly "cool" areas that get that way because of being off the road and inexpensive, then promptly buy up all the places, end up stifling the creativity that made the areas desirable once property values go through the roof. See: Brooklyn, Portland, Seattle, now even Denver.

More like SF is being destroyed by techies and other outsiders. How can anyone think of an average price for a burger being $15 dollars as revitalizing? Those of us who are regular people can hardly afford to WORK there, let alone live there.

+Bouchon211 for the Same Reason they aren't showing Asians.

+zarinth no one cares about orientals, get over it.

+Prince Edward are you serious? Its like you're ignorant to how much of San Francisco's population is Asian.

Lolmonster777 yeah, i was wondering why all the dogs and cats are scared in that city. it's become another hong kong.

TheJesseQuintana really, man, u know about the issues this city has had for years but no one says a damn thing 'cause they have to be PC.

lmao yup

haha I like the "he's a Don" word :D he's also a Patron

+Politically Incorrect Indeed

You tried it.

Yup, Let it happen

lol

Thought that was Vegas.

check your privledge!

That Guy mostly thatunless you live on the normal side of the city aka the sunset district

In SF its called SoMa

Civic Center is technically its own neighborhood.

+vibz123rulez U don't have a clue what you are talking about!

Steve Buscemi with nice legs and a nice ass.

+JoesGLI "I'm a skinny 6' 5" mothamucka"

+MrTacticalMuffinTop "You got a gram bag hit the zags and roll her up 'cause a nigga like me can't fake it when I'm high Get the Visine for the tight red eyes"

If you didn't know me you would think I was a clucka

I miss the affordable SF.

amen.

+Dirk Bravo - Lead singer of 10 foot screws. man, walk a few blocks north. The post office on Larkin will usually have 2-8 folks INSIDE smoking rocks.

Dave Chappelle.

That was me

Yeah, we try and forget about that.

really!? I love Faith No More

They're from SF? I didn't know.

Hell homeless people where in the streets during the gold rush.

Yeah the homeless in sanfrancisco aren't people who lived in sanfrancisco and couldn't afford rent any more, the homeless people are druggies from all over the country that travel there.

@@seannaehring4290 - this is true: an influx of Yuppies n Shit-Bums. There have always been alot of homeless here, but since 1999-2000 it's been like a wave of filth that does'nt pull out: stank- rags & stank-money people.😀 (Sorry lm responding months later)

1985, back when Fantasy in Flesh and the Gaiety Theater were there. And the McDonalds Bookstore too. Some really nice memories...

1325? was it a closet? studios are $3k easy.

@@13ivanogre13 Frenchy's K&T Bookstore was right across the street; they were always advertising for topless change girls. I ate at Original Joe's a huge number of times and often brought whichever stripper I was dating. Some top-floor crackhead set our building on fire @ 3am and the repairs took almost a year. Good times. :=)

@@gonstotwriter Yeah, I arrived full-time in SF in 1990. There was still adult-oriented entertainment on every side of every block. One of the first places I lived at was the Globetrotter's Inn at 225 Ellis at Mason. The building next door to us was an infamous old bathhouse who's name I can't remember anymore but they had painted the sign over but you could read the name through it. That wasn't my cup of tea but it didn't matter because 95% of everything else was just fine. That was before the Internet so if you wanted 'entertainment' you had to go out and get it, and it was there, all of it. It was a great reason to walk the streets of San Francisco and those are some real good memories...

And do you remember a place on Market Street called Fascination? It seemed to be one of these games where you slide the 'puck' forward to get it into the center ring and you got a prize but the whole thing seemed shady. I was far more fascinated by how long they stayed in business.

It was everybody partied together!

I saw a dude stomp a pigeon on Market and Hyde once...not so cool

chris: I would say that the aggressive ones are more likely to be on crack or meth.

Thank god his companies gone hold out breh

exactly... I'm a fan but Damm he's an ignorant dude.. I'm sure he plays it up a bit for the camera.

@Dorian Graye - Thats were Hip-Hop n Rap came from; Dre Dog bein a rapper n all and obviously from S.F. so no need to prove it. We used to wear other hats, jerseys and starter jackets of other teams, simply cause the colors or style. N.Y Yankees was popular in the 80's because most of the Rap was coming out of N.Y, so it'd be in the videos n on the album covers. San Jose Sharks was popular in the early 90's. Nowadays, if you want to do that, one would quickly assume you're from that city; but back then everybody WAS from here so people did'nt question it; die hard sports fans would tho, haha. Now it's like if yer not wearing any S.F shit, one would assume you're not from here. Sorry to respond years later; you probably dont give a rats ass, haha. I just saw this vid for the first time. Hope it does'nt seem like lm comin across to you as a dick or snob - text, ya know ✌Out and happy new year.

@Dorian Graye I've seen Kid Rock wear Alabama stuff and he's from the midwest

My name is money

@@napo2k11why is he ignorant ??

+jazy jaxi his taqueria is the shit!

thanks for your positivity. been living here for ten years and needed some words of encouragement :)

+Lars “B” Amble Alright, and how much is your rent?

tether cheaper than it was in seattle. not to mention transit, healthcare, sales tax, and various other costs are all vastly cheaper here than seattle and most any other major city in the country.

Thank You! S.F. is the best city I've ever lived in by far. Great weather, great libraries, beautiful hills, interesting neighborhoods. Does it have problems? What city doesn't?

She's a newsreader with a pretty face and very nice legs. Kudos to the photog, nice work...

She's hot. In a weird way...

@@82Ku she totally got wet interviewing Andre and she looked so happy getting whipped in SoMa. 10/10, would bang

@@felixG83 Especially in that mini skirt and those stockings. 8=👊=D

Gahl Yogu you said like two times for no reason lmao

berkeley is awesome! feels more like san francisco than san francisco nowadays.

you must have a great deal of money.

limeginger not really actually 😂 I had to move out of the bay two months ago cuz I couldn't afford it.

me too :)

If only Caltrain worked properly and left according to schedule :/.

True

You met a few not all, you have no idea what each persons story. High rent and lack of available housing does contribute to homelessness so does addiction, mental illness and other issues.

Bullshit

oh no according to the libtards they didn't choose that lifestyle they are "victims". The successful techies that decided to go to college and get jobs those are the real evil oppressors of San Francisco.

I've met and gotten to know many homeless people. This is absolutely true. If you are of able body and mind and willing to work, there are always options - maybe you don't get to live in SF but who says it was your god given right to live here anyways? So you grew up here and lived here for 40 years, too bad my dude adapt or die. If you're not of able body or mind there are government programs to assist such as SSI, long term psychiatric care etc. I agree mental health is definitely a huge problem and there isn't always adequate funding, but if you want the help usually you can get it. Not to mention the charitable orgs and nonprofits too. No, most people on the streets are usually addicted to drugs or have mental illness and refuse to accept help (which I think they legally shouldn't be able to refuse but whatever). Or they're drifters like op said and choose to be homeless.

+Prince Edward haha

Tyler M lol, hey, at least you admit to it. i'm all for people being real.u shouldn't have to sugarcoat shit just 'cause you're white, bro.

+Prince Edward hahaa

The place at 6th and Market is really good too. It's also a great example of how the influx of tech has distorted/raised the cost of food. When I came back in May of 2008 a regular burrito cost $6, now it's almost $10. Still tastes great and worth every penny though.

+ArielHelwany Sounds like something puffy would do.

El Faro

Cancun!

edgar carranza exactly a lot of people like LA. Me I prefer the Bay Area

I'm from there

If this works for you I'm glad for you. Everyone should be so fortunate.

What about now

@@papusa9878 still love the bay lmao

Let me guess, you've got a rainbow bumper sticker?

No I just really love San Francisco,it's where I left my heart,while at the same time your wife is leaving her panties at my house,should answer your question if I have a rainbow bumper sticker. San Francisco is a beautiful city and it takes a certain person to actually take in its beauty but if you're going to go there with a homophobic attitude you're going to be deeply disappointed I'm just saying.

Travis Davis

Travis Davis yeah exactly man you gotta be open minded man I know exactly what your talking about. It's so sad that this is happening in my hometown like duuude :/ I moved like 3 or 4 years ago I miss it sooo much

Just A Human I also moved out of the city and I was living in the Projects where rent prices were also being raised. That is really a bad sign for things to come for people still living in Frisco. I know exactly how u feel.

Hypothetically... If you were a homeless junkie living in the Tenderloin, would you be saying the same thing?

Not anymore

+Inflatulation Station How?

🙄

isn't oakland a shithole and gangland like chicago

HERRO yea, some parts ig

It has bad areas but every city has bad areas. Oakland, is becoming far more interesting than San Francisco, it has diversity, bohemia and is much more affordable.

@@charlech That's East Oakland, West Oakland, and along International. Most other places aren't bad. In fact, some parts of Oakland like Piemont and Montclair are $$$.

@@ColinYapp Hardly! Rents are almost comparable at this point.

You're saving alot of money

+Heidi Svenson I hear ya.

+Heidi Svenson Can you not afford something a bit cheaper in the bay area? I know Oakland is very slightly more affordable, at least for now.

Me too! (Eugene, not Portland). It's easy to leave the bay area.. but coming back is financially unviable :( I want to go back to my old job in the Steuart tower of 1 Market St!

+Heidi Svenson Bro, the dream of the 90s is alive in Portland.