During the past couple of years, though, people have taken this rather seriously, ever since the creation of a graphical interface to the Internet. Scott Conrad, a Santa Monica architect recently transplanted from San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood, sent me the Westside Weekly story after he and I had been conversing for two months by e-mail about changing San Francisco. I'm from Newport Beach and other places in Southern California. Growing up in Orange County, I had this dream of a West Coast, European city. I found that feeling up there.
People invest all that money, move their family there, and they're cheated.
Yeah, it's been that way for about a quarter of a century. During the past year or so, hundreds of articles have been written about our falls, winters, springs, and summers of discontent. I saw four television crews. I saw 20 wagging reporters' notebooks. I saw radio microphones springing up like fungus after rain.