— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
I’ve hated on Union SF in the past, but this latest piece from the Chronicle just keeps it coming up:
Charukesnant lived in Cow Hollow for years before buying a two-bedroom, one-bath unit in the Mission last month. She and her friends would frequently hit the restaurants in the Mission on the weekends, something that’s more convenient now that she lives there.
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Brian Choe, who had previously been renting in the Marina, narrowed his search for a home to the Mission and Mission-Potrero area. Once he set his eyes on a unit at the Union by Palisades, “he knew this was where I wanted to be.” The young professional said he eats out nearly every night at one of the neighborhood restaurants and often finds himself at a local watering hole, Homestead, 2301 Folsom St.
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Charukesnant said the Mission’s “chill vibe” is perhaps one its most surprising delights.
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Dunno how much longer the Mission will have a “chill vibe” if a bunch of bros in Ed Hardy shirts keep infesting the neighborhood and pumping out shit-factories, but that’s just me.
UPDATE: Let me clarify, it has nothing to do with fashion but everything to do with attitude. These are the people that drive to work (read the article), make demands for more parking rather than parkletts/bike lanes/bike parking, file noise complaints, and demand that hipsters leave Dolores Park alone so they can hang out with their babies and dogs. Fuck that.
Comments (14)
This sucks. How do we drive these folks out? More murders?
you nailed it. people like that are, sadly, on the rise in SF. give it another 5 years and watch how congested the streets get with all those hybrids on the way to some pricey chain store (whole foods) where people can be all “localvore” and shit.
Castro has been going thru the same infestation too.
Open letter to Marina chicks: Please go back to Fresno and Bakersfield.
have you been to fresno (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeouwaM7O1k) or bakersfield? not quite the affluence i would associate this phenomenon with.
In the grand scheme, it seems that higher-order change always encompasses (and therefore trumps) lower-order change;
My thumb-to-the-wind says that it will be us who wind up being driven out (in re: MrEricSir’s comment), and I think njudah’s 5 year timeline is likely to be accurate.
This too will change, and eventually the retreat of the yin will give way to the rise of the yang, but I wouldn’t count on that happening anytime soon.
- Mike
until more megatowers get built in SOMA, “Marina People” priced out of the Marina are going to move to the Mission….
Don’t worry, they’re all ready to have babies soon and complain about how they are forced to move out of the city because of the awful schools and “it’s so rough to raise kids in the City”. This is the cycle. A few will come in, but they won’t stay long.
Kevin Keating will save you all.
It’s true. These folks are breeders, and they don’t want to breed in the city; it’s just too hard. This is a momentary glitch not a long term issue. And if there is any justice, Humpry Slocombe and Flour & Water will go out of business too.
Agreed, this feels like just a surge and these Maria girls may get tired of being out of place.
Oh and Randy Bings, what’s up with all the Humphrey Slocombe comments in like every post? Obsessed much? Move on creep.
So this post hit a LITTLE too close to home since the “Charukesnant” in the article you excerpted is MY ROOMMATE. I live in that two bedroom they describe and it’s a fucking awesome spot. It’s a fixer upper for sure and our neighbors are a mix of large Mexican families, hip young families and drug dealers. Judge people for being former Marina dwellers if you want, but she’s a super rad chick who lived out there because a) despite being full of douchebags, you can’t deny that it IS a beautiful area and b) because it was a 5 minute walk from her non-profit job with the Parks Conservancy. The Mission isn’t reserved just for fixie-riding, PBR-loving, hoodie-sporting hipsters like us you know. Just sayin’. As long as they aren’t dipshits or douchebags, I say welcome to the neighborhood!
here here I Like Your Face. you guys, blogger included, sound super bigoted and obnoxious here. all the neighborhood bigotry in SF is out of control. if the mission isn’t dirty enough for you anymore then feel free to move somewhere dirtier and more “authentic.” also, i like how a bunch of people paying $2000 rent are complaining about things like whole foods. also, you realize that by making the mission some kind of hipster heaven bullshit, you are driving out mexicans and other immigrants who made the neighborhood what it was in the first place.
Actually, it was the Irish and the German who did that, but thanks for playing.
Come one man. Can’t you acknowledge Latino culture’s foundation in the Mission at all? Are you serious? Do you not hear Spanish being spoken every day, still, in the Mission. How about taquerias? Ever see those? Guatemalan food? Salvadorean food? What world do you live in? Look up from your phone every once in a while.