Comments by "Pohaku Mana" (@pohakumana4288) on "Streets by VICE: San Francisco (Market St.)" video.
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Native San Franciscan, 4th generation, left a long time ago.
After the 60's and H/A went to smack it was time to go.
My mom a 3rd generation San Franciscan was smart enough to see how the city was changing in the 50's and we moved to San Mateo and got a Leave it Beaver childhood. No gangs, no homeless, no silly con valley back then. Hell Foster City was still mud flats.
Now in 71' when I took off to 'see the country' as opposed to seeing Nam I felt Calif. was becoming a police state.
I remember the figures on top of the Main Library at Civic Center photographing all of us in the anti-war demonstrations. It was just too much back then.
I came back in the 90's to go to SFSU and SFAI and rented a 1 bed room house in merced Heights for $650. mo. It's still there, although it's been rebuilt and rent is 6 times that.
San francisco is a great place to play, not to raise a family.
It's a great place to make money and be entrepreneurial.
But you can't grow food, raise hens, rabbit, have a horse, milk a goat on 3 acres in SF.
But you can in Hawaii for less than 100K.
No piss smelling street, no gangs, no city tow, no water/heating/parking/garbage bills. No billboards.
No gambling. I could go on all day but needless to say, go West young man.
My family is 14 generation on the North American Continent, they moved West, slowly. 5 generation in Ft. Ann, more in the Midwest, finally 49er's my Great Grandpa was born in Russian River Township and the same year my Great Grandma was born in SF. 1876. It is true what they say.
You can never go home again because home isn't what you remember it as. I did catch a climpse of Bernal Heights. We lived up from Army St. when I went to John McClaren Elementry. Go West~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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