I can't go home any more

I haven't been back home in years. I don't know if I missed San Francisco. It remains an interesting place to grow up in, despite its contradictory qualities of being both a cultural center and a periphery. A recent New Yorker article about San Francisco's “urban doom loop” reminded me that much of the reason “only tourists call it Frisco” is because of its deep structures and liberal restrictions.

The city matters more as a complex structure, and living there depends on many other factors, including Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, the Pacific Rim, and its history of inclusion and exclusion. The latter's official meaning in the Chinese Exclusion Act is a constant reminder that growing up in a city is a combination of envying a suburban lifestyle while knowing that downtown has debatable meanings.

The change is unsettling because the city’s broad project is widely shared. Since the end of the Industrial Revolution, the main path of America’s great cities has been what is often called urban renewal: transformation into beautiful, dynamic environments for affluent middle-class living. No city has excelled at this challenge more than San Francisco. It invested in lush, manicured parks, tree-lined boulevards, and world-class museums where there had been none before. It seemed to emerge from the Great Recession enriched and with both influence and authority. “San Francisco is the object of thin air of envy from many other cities that think they are more important,” one local resident told me recently. For a long time, that envy mainly encouraged imitation. Universities spent millions of dollars reorienting themselves to fit the Bay Area mindset. Today, the success of entire industries is measured by virality, optimization, and relentless growth. In San Francisco, the public thinks they had a dream, but now they’re living a nightmare. The question is, why did so much change happen so quickly?

New reports paint a picture of widespread displacement. Downtown San Francisco is seeing its highest retail vacancy rate since 2006. In the past few months, Christian Louboutin, Lululemon, Nordstrom, Old Navy, and Williams-Sonoma have all begun to pull out of the area en masse, as have Office Depot and Whole Foods. In late summer, the owner of Gumps, an upscale store that opened in the 1860s, published a scathing open letter threatening to close in response to “San Francisco's destructive tactics, including allowing the homeless to occupy our sidewalks, openly distribute and use illegal drugs, harass the public, and litter our city streets.” Urban planners had already begun circulating a paper by economist Stine van Neuwerburg that depicted a vicious cycle in which a post-pandemic collapse of retail and reduced safety would lead to reduced public revenues and fewer public services: what he called the “urban catastrophe loop.” The phrase became a common refrain around town, and many took it to mean that Cassandra was speaking of their fate.

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of “joke”of moderate charm of of Bourgeoisie“It sees Bunuel recounting over a meal the secrets that lurk beneath the surface of Europe's decaying aristocracy: the stupidity, infidelity, drug dealing, corruption, military coups, perversion and the paralysis of boredom.”

I grew up with a TV stand and no actual dining room, but I also tried to learn something about large families, and yet it's possible to have an interesting life there, even if you prefer late-night meals at Foster's Cafe with your sister to some interesting experiment in fine dining in the city but probably in a suburban county. Perhaps I will return here again, if only to remind myself that scale is a determining factor in evaluating life, like rethinking the concept of dinner and a movie without a TV tray.

The Best Date Night Restaurants in California

If you're having trouble planning a special date night, LoveFood's recent roundup can help. The website aims to find the best date night restaurants in each state, and California's top picks take dinner and a movie to the next level. The website chose San Francisco's Foreign Cinema as the best date night restaurant in the state. Here's what they had to say about the restaurant: “Recall the days when a date meant dinner and a movie at this gorgeous, bohemian-chic restaurant. Mediterranean cuisine is given a California twist with seasonal, locally sourced ingredients. Enjoy champagne and oysters on the sparkling heated patio. Classic and cult movies screen on the big screen, creating a romantic atmosphere.” The restaurant's Yelp page is full of reviews that say it's the perfect place for a date night or wedding anniversary. Foreign Cinema is located at 2534 Mission St. It's open for dinner Monday through Friday and brunch and dinner Saturday and Sunday.
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April 12, 2022

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In 2019, Netflix Produced A sequel miniseries, with Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Paul Gross and Barbara Garrick reprising their roles. Linney and Maupin served as executive producers. Alan Paul Supervised, Michael Cunningham wrote the script for the first episode. While not a direct adaptation of Maupin's novel, like the first three miniseries, the 10-part series incorporates the central characters as well as certain characters and elements from Maupin's later “Tales” novels to craft a new story set primarily in the present day.^[12]