OK, help me to understand this. You immigrated to California, to San Fran, which is too expensive for most people to live, and yet you somehow can afford to be there, *but* you feel entitled to have *your* home town and rosy memories intact by halting the natural evolution of any city. Guess what? My bucolic home town is now owned by the Chinese, I'm no longer welcome, nor can I afford to live there. Grow up Ms Hanes, life brings change and you aren't going to like most of it.