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We’reTexas

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  1. Well, you should go to Reinhardt Redwood Park in the East Bay, but if you really want to hike through redwoods in Marin you can totally avoid the clusterfuck of the main Muir entrance and park off the Panoramic Highway (or take the Dipsea Trail) and take trails through redwoods with none of the crowds. Just a local’s tip.
  2. Most overrated thing in the Bay Area. You can easily see redwoods in other places nearby, and you can even access parts of Muir through Mt Tam hiking trails - absolutely no reason to deal with those crowds. Main thing is in July, but I’ve had friends up there for events in the past few weeks.
  3. Pics aren’t loading, but guessing Maru Sushi on Powell? One of my favorite sports bars, Last Drop Tavern, just opened across the street. Beautiful weekend to head into the Bay. Recommend hitting up a park - Washington in North Beach, Alta Plaza in Pac Heights, Crissy Field or Baker Beach. Also will plug the new park that just opened up near Ghirardelli, Francisco Park. One of the few days of the year you can wear flip flops in the city.
  4. Yeah but no AC during heat waves is brutal.
  5. Congrats, Monterrey or Carmel? Would love to live in the peninsula but always assumed the market was ridiculous.
  6. Oh, absolutely. You’ll see that appear most strongly in the housing debate. But that wasn’t the case here. Over 1/3 of the city turned out for a special election to recall the school board in the most childless city in the country. Boudin’s recall was specifically triggered by the Troy McCalister case, viral videos of folks walking out of stores with bags of merch, and his failure to prosecute (and expressed empathy for) the Honduran gangs running the open air drug markets in the Tenderloin that contributed to over 1,000 overdose deaths during the pandemic. [Edit: Should mention rise in Asian hate crimes played a huge role as well.] In other words, indifference to a perceived sense of lawlessness. This wasn’t the typical progressive lapse into NIMBYism, but rather the confluence of several long-running developments in SF politics that I won’t get into but can be summarized as “people getting pissed off”. I’m sorry if I gave that impression. As I imagine it is in LA, “the homeless situation” serves as shorthand for the city’s inability to control - and perceived normalization of - lawlessness. Homelessness and crime certainly shouldn’t be conflated, was just being lazy.
  7. I don’t think “too liberal” is accurate. George Gascon, his predecessor, was also a progressive. Chesa wasn’t elected by majority, but I think most San Franciscans - and most Democrats - would agree that mass incarceration has failed and we should seek evidenced-based ways to reform the criminal justice system. In practice, when the pandemic hit property theft spiked, and frustrations about the homeless situation came to a boil as criminals could break into garages or steal from Walgreens with impunity. Quite simply, Chesa sucked at his job. I could go on at length, but the recall was the culmination of the manifestation of voter frustration with the performative politics of progressives during the pandemic. In a span of six months, we recalled three members of the school board following a series of national embarrassments, shot down Chesa’s former chief of staff for state assembly in favor of a YIMBY, and finally gave Chesa the boot himself - all overwhelmingly. To be clear, “progressives” are a distinct group within the factionalism of San Francisco politics, and San Franciscans are generally annoyed with city leadership as a whole, but they have generated the most visible controversies. As for Chesa himself, I think Annie Lowrey summed it up best in the Atlantic:
  8. 60/40 right now, fantastic. Thought we had lost momentum with this dragging on so long but folks really turned out.
  9. Yeah JFC I think I’m old and I was listening to Boosie and Webbie 20 years ago in high school. Hell, I was listening to Savage Life last week.
  10. Bacchanal is the GOAT imo. Bayou Beer and Wine Garden and Bulldog uptown are our defaults otherwise, with Columns, Val’s and Courtyard Brewing as honorable mentions.
  11. Cafe Amelie closed, RIP. In the FQ: Palm and Pine, Sylvain, Italian Barrel, Justine’s, Domenica is across the street. CBD/Warehouse: August, Herbsaint, Josephine Estelle, Gianna, La Boca, Couvant (just reopened under new ownership though and I haven’t tried it yet) Marigny/Bywater: Bywater American Bistro, the Franklin, Paladar 511 Uptown: Tons of places…Coquette, Lillette, LPG, Saffron, Avo, Gautreau’s, Costera, the Bower
  12. Live in San Francisco and active in local politics here. Just my assessment, and it’s not a minority one.
  13. No - the regulatory framework driving supply constraints is. Are you seriously going to argue we’re not in a housing crisis? “Disaster” is subjective, but it’s the only word I can think of when affordable housing projects are shot down to save parking lots and a NIMBY boomer single-handedly throws our best public university’s admissions into chaos. SB 9 was a positive step forward but from what I’m hearing the economics still don’t make sense to build housing where it is most needed.
  14. CA is such a disaster. It’s obviously early, but do you get a sense SB 9 will spur development? Also, are folks taking advantage of Prop 19? Anecdotally it seems like there’s not enough awareness of it.
  15. I chortled at the passive aggression in the proxy from Skadden and WSGR making it clear they had to negotiate definitive docs in like 16 hours for this bullshit.
  16. That’s sort of interesting to think about. Had he actually done that diligence and received information about the bots that would make him want to back out, he’d arguably be in possession of material non-public information. Twitter doesn’t disclose that information and obviously wouldn’t agree to cleanse him, so he would have been locked up in his position for…a while? Who knows when that info goes stale. I have no idea if he was acting on advice at the time, but agree this sounds like buyer’s remorse.
  17. Yep, it was incredible. For background, they are only non-members of the Fellowship of Friends cult to farm their vineyards, who produced the legendary Renaissance cabs. Along with Dani Rozman, they are making some of the best wine in California right now in North Yuba County. Smoke damage was bad in 2020, so to remove the skins they did a white cab (which was ok) and then this sparkling. Most places in SF are cellaring it so we were lucky to get a bottle. I know the old David Keck places in Houston have a relationship. Also, Partida Creus imo.
  18. Frenchtown Farms, imo one of the most exciting producers in America right now. Snatch up any of this that gets to Texas.
  19. Why would Twitter bother to negotiate? They specifically got specific performance and Elon’s personal guarantee as long as he has the debt financing. And they can sue him to try and obtain that financing.
  20. Night + Market is one of my favorite places in the world (well, any location).
  21. Yes, but for those who qualify it’s like winning the lottery.
  22. Yes, I’d nonetheless be surprised that Austin’s homeownership rate is only 7% above San Francisco’s, which has had affordability problems for much, much longer. Settle down there chief, just seeing conflicting numbers and wondering what is correct.
  23. Those who graduated law school 2010-2011 had a really roughy start getting off the ground, but everyone after was fine (in Texas, at least). To hit the point of this thread, I’d say a defining aspect of millennial lawyers in biglaw is (a) a deep appreciation of actually having a job after having experienced the recession and (b) a total lack of faith in equity partnership.
  24. Rent control in Texas is an interesting issue I’ve wondered about. It’s a legacy from ‘70’s progressive movements in blue coastal cities and I think most recognize the disastrous effects it has had on housing markets, but nonetheless live with it because there’s no painless way to transition out. Progressives, of course, still advocate rent control along with many other strict tenant protections. Austin may be a liberal city, but I have tough time seeing voters stomach rent control or measures to severely curtail evictions. Also, I’m seeing census data from 2019 indicating 45% of Austinites are homeowners (which seems surprisingly low) and recent articles citing studies that the figure is 75% - anyone have and idea what the actual number is?
  25. If I hear another person above the age of 60 tell me that rates are still at historic lows…
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