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Originally Posted by mechanicvirus
My bad, I was living in the Dogpatch in SF around 2012 so that time frame. I remember Emeryville was where you hung out to fuck around if it wasn't Oakland.
Also I just went on google maps for west Oakland and they gentrified the HELL out of it near 880 in Prescott area. Clearly I need to visit the Bay Area again.
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And I just had to use ChatGPT to figure out where exactly Dogpatch is. LOL.
When I was living in Alameda, about once a month, I’d take the ferry across the Bay and head into the Financial District.
There are definitely pockets of improvement in Oakland, for better or worse. It’s sad, though, because if you peel back the mess, the ineffective police, the homeless encampments, the trash, the burned-out and stripped-down cars, you see that Oakland is actually a great city.
I’m no longer in Alameda, but the tunnel and bridges that separated it from Oakland really did make it feel like a different world.
Take care.