San Francisco is the real New Amsterdam. I love it, publicdefender.
I am with you on the sense that things were totally ungrounded for the last 10 years. There needed to be a reorientation. That’s occurring. It’s rough while it lasts, but it’s good that it’s happening, and things will be better than the last 10 years when it’s done. Yes, there will be less bling, but there will be plenty of good food, good teachers, decent (but smaller) homes…. Not a bad world, I think, if our politicians don’t screw it up totally by trying to prevent/minimize the changes.