I grew up in the Bay Area, as it’s called, in the suburbs just east, past Berkeley towards Sacramento. Bucolic tract homes interspersed with walnut farms that soon dissipated in time as property values rendered them archaic was the setting for my childhood.
You can never go back home, so they say, and this latest column by Cinnamon Stillwell news from SF proves that adage.
What jumps out to me is the resistance from local pols in blocking a floating museum featuring the USS Iowa in an empty port in the SF bay. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face:
“Probably the most blatant example of San Francisco’s anti-military bias was displayed last month by the city’s Board of Supervisors when they voted 3-8 against docking the WWII/Korean War-era USS Iowa as a floating museum at the Port of San Francisco. This was after the local Congressional delegation secured $3 million to move the Iowa from Rhode Island to San Francisco because a study had shown the ship would bring in 500,000 visitors a year.â€ÂÂ
I’ve had it with this city, with this entire state! I’m moving to Kentucky, and I’m serious. I start work this Monday and I couldn’t be happier. This used to be a great place to live and work but it’s just gotten to the point of insanity. Traffic, exorbitant housing prices, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and the people who keep voting for them are just a few reasons why…
Pete has left the building.
