http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-
The number of families making $150K or more a year is rising in SF while families making under that continue to decline.
In a city that prides itself on diversity, this trend is anything but. Only about 30% of the SF Police force actually live in the city. Most are living in the east bay and other outlying areas. What would happen if an earthquake disabled the bridges into the city?
One of the best qualities about San Francisco is that it embodies so many varieties of neighborhoods, people and history. If the trend of low-middle class getting squeezed out continues, then only the history will remain.
As a response to the article, a reader by the name of "Ichiro" wrote the following response to the SF Chronicle article:
"This city has changed incredibly in just 15 years. It has lost what little bohemian edge it had, the funkiness really phased out around 1998. The whole "progressive" image is really a joke. Rich consumers simply stand behind a gay's right to marriage and they pander to environmental issues and that makes the city "progressive". Its such a delusion. The city is actually all about just eating and drinking and being entertained night after night after night. San Francisco is a mecca for consumption, that is what is really going on here. Buy stuff, worship Steve Jobs and new gadgets, go eat and drink at the newest hip place, maintain your stallion of friends through e-mails and texts, and go to starbucks. That's the drive of this city, its not progressive, its progressive consumption. Buy a million dollar condo and join in on the fun!! If you and your spouse make less than 350 k a year, I would get the hell out while you can."
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