unfortunately noh but on a related note theres a glut of "im moving out of vancouver cause rent is now 3x what i earn" essays..
real ask does anyone have any good “moving to sf” essays that are Not by tech guys ecstatic at finding more tech guys. older writing is good too as i understand nobody cool has moved to sf in the past 10 yearshttps://twitter.com/Scaachi/status/1202363064391274498 …
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ya this is the current hot trend in the sf essay genre although "essay" would be a generous term
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ah the rent jokes in 2009...!
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The only good essay in this genre was written in 1906 https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/306234/ …pic.twitter.com/Gifx80aE6Q
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I don't know about essays. Rebecca Solnit has written two books that might be relevant. Hollow City (2002) - chronicling waves of artists and weirdos who moved to SF, and how tech displaced them. Scholarly/personal Infinite City (2010) - very personal maps of SF
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not an essay and maybe not even about moving lol but
@mspsegal and her friends wrote this great book on all the rad/creative/experimental activities they did in the 90s:https://www.amazon.com/Tales-San-Francisco-Cacophony-Society/dp/0867197749 … -
it's on my nightstand if you ever want to borrow it :)
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