Visiting California is ever more shocking; I wish it would go back to 1985. Apparently everyone has always felt that http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/opinion/sunday/my-dark-california-dream.html?referer=http://news.google.com/ …
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@Meaningness Even 1995 was kinda weird but at least it was doable1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@arletterocks Yeah, that’s about when I started thinking “whoa, this place is changing A LOT, and not for the better.”2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@arletterocks But when I arrived in ’85, old timers talked wistfully about how lovely the Peninsula was when it was mostly orchards…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Got gnarly existential vertigo at a fast food strip mall in Sunnyvale a couple months ago with two newcomers to CA1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness ... because I'd finally placed that "Uh. Whoa. This Chipotle used to be an orchard when I was in high school."1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@arletterocks Urk. Yeah. I get things like that a lot. Maybe this has always been true as people get older… But Bay Area has changed faster2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@arletterocks Mind you, the towns I grew up in, in NY and OH, are also unrecognizable (in opposite ways—one collapsed, the other grew rich.)
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