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We’reTexas

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  1. I can only imagine the toll 75 degrees and breezy sunshine takes on a man.
  2. I literally referred to “as a practical matter”, the lived experience. Of course Houston is objectively worse but you are insulated from the heat except for the spare moments when you exit your home to your SUV to your frigid office. On that note, I realized I’d lived in CA too long when I thought it was a good idea to walk 2 miles through Montrose one day last summer. JFC.
  3. Having lived in both, disagree as a practical matter. DC is on a swamp. You try cramming on the red line and walking from Union Station to the Hill in a suit when it’s 93 degrees. NYC arguably almost as bad too.
  4. Like, the city of Sonoma? Don’t do many tastings in the area but Valley Bar + Bottle and Girl and the Fig on the square are great restaurants.
  5. I don’t disagree, but in my view there are really two issues here. Yes, homelessness, drug dealing and their attendant problems are symptoms of broader systemic issues. But they are also quality-of-life issues that result in the denial of public space to law-abiding citizens and adverse economic effects to surrounding neighborhoods. One municipality cannot single-handedly solve the opioid crisis, but it might be able to crack down on an open-air drug market through punitive measures that provide a deterrent effect. If (if) that works, so what? Yes, the problem will just go elsewhere and that’s a shame, but ultimately a municipality is responsible for protecting the quality of life of its residents. IMO, at least - you’re certainly entitled to disagree and many folks where I live do so. (Sorry if I’m projecting too much - still boggles the Chronicle’s report on a village in Honduras with McMansions built with Tenderloin drug money paying homage to their cash cow.)
  6. My understanding is Sapporo bought Anchor to brew Sapporo stateside and totally misjudged the feasibility. The brewery also unionized a few years ago, which raised labor costs (I mean, I supported it, just not surprised it caused complications). As they scaled back, they tried to pivot to on-premise in the SF area … right before COVID. Their distributor also sucked. Been hard to find Anchor Steam on tap in SF the past few years.
  7. ^^^yep in the classic structure you just dividend it out, but there are other structures (IPO, asset sale, etc).
  8. Damn, truly an institution. It’s a long shot but maybe Fort Point or someone keeps producing the Steam beer?
  9. Mikey and Gina are great people, happy to see they are in TX now. Getting big time!
  10. I liked the Clumsiest. Baba au Rum as well.
  11. You serious Clark? Yes, there is a housing shortage. Denying that is like climate change denial at this point.
  12. I was going to say, there are plenty of SFHs under $1M considering the median price on a house in the state is like $750k, but then I realized what a bizarre statement that is to a Texan audience. To CR this thread, fuck the 50+ years of NIMBYism that have left most current and future Californians a generation of renters. Austinites should pay attention.
  13. Idk when your last time there was, but about 5 years ago they opened up a whole new complex outside of Santa Rosa. Def check that out.
  14. Guerneville is the Gay Riviera. Obviously Palm Springs but IDK about modest COL anymore. Not at all. Have you been in the hood recently?
  15. Oh, I wasn’t trashing the city. You know how during the bar/restaurant boom in the 2010s so many Dallas places tried following national trends like farm to table, craft cocktails, etc but just couldn’t resist their inner $30k-millionaire to make it a little nightclub-y? My wife and I had the simultaneous realization that San Diego is just like that while watching the Kettle Exchange staff fist pump in unison to pounding bass on a Sunday afternoon (great spot for drinks btw).
  16. Horn BBQ in Oakland used to be great, has run into troubles recently tho.
  17. Buy a portable. You’ll be less than gruntled when it’s 82 in you bedroom at 2 am.
  18. Yep, the Wire is a story about the modern American city, with the drug war as the friction point underpinning the narrative (think I’m actually stealing David Simon’s words). What makes it so great is that the characters and storylines all represent broader social arguments but are nonetheless compelling in their own right. Where Treme failed, IMO.
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