BayAreaNativeGal

Nature-lover, supportive of preserving our beautiful environment. Pro-law and order, decency, and accountability. Life here is a privilege, not a right. 🌲⛰🌊

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@VegasMike27 Nonsense. When I was making $40k I was living in a studio apartment.

Houses haven't cost $70k in CA since I was a teenager in the late 1970s.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@BuzzPatterson And Scott Wiener has moved to force high-density housing in every town in California, including those directly on the fault line. He has no place in our state and should be put on a bus back to his home in New Jersey.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

It's demographics. Left Bank was French cuisine. Demographics have shifted to an overwhelmingly Asian/Indian presence.

My husband and I go out to dinner at one of our favorite restaurants in a redwood forest and Chinese and Indians are there, speaking their own languages like that's perfectly normal.

A few nights ago we went to dinner and there were Indians in turbans.

Oh, gee, why is a French restaurant chain not surviving?

It's disgusting.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@carlatcole @Scott_Wiener Notice what the two have in common?

I live near Woodside and the proposed construction is a monstrosity, completely incompatible with the surrounding lands. We are in a wild space, with redwood forests that extend to the Pacific.

These imbeciles need to be dealt with.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@BrockvonDingle @KNBR Thank you. It's just absolute clown world! And notice that they didn't even attempt to provide an answer to the question 😆.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

I acknowledge that he used some language that was a bit shocking, and not entirely necessary. But by "courage", I am referring to the fact that he's sending an underlying message that few are willing to send.

I was supportive of the gay community for decades. But at some point--it was around 2000, as I recall--it began to be a daily in-your-face assault, most often by The Chronicle.

Shoving it in the faces of folks who don't want any part of it has gone too far, and there is now a backlash. That's unfortunate for the LGBTQ+ folks who also want no part of the spectacle, but it's their community doing the harm to itself.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@KNBR 16 years after this outstanding, fresh-faced rookie was called up and proceeded to delight fans for many years and three championships, he's being subjected to this nonsense. San Francisco has made itself the laughing stock of the country once again.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@sfchronicle No, they're arriving to watch baseball, the sole reason anyone attends a ballgame.

As much as you want us to care about parades and rainbow flags, we don't.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

“Yan has lived in her well-kept apartment at 1120 Jackson St., located along the Powell-Hyde cable car line in Lower Nob Hill, for 43 years. The building is rent-controlled, so she pays $281.42 per month. She moved there shortly after immigrating to the U.S. from Zhanjiang, China, in 1982."

43 years occupying the apartment, no English spoken, and a 2026 rent that was 70% of what I was paying when working my first job after college in the 1980s.

And folks wonder why housing is expensive?

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

It's the same with deliveries. We remodeled our home and purchased a variety of new furnishings. With one exception, every delivery was by a team with one guy who spoke just enough English to get by, while the rest spoke none. Being born and raised in the U.S., I of course displayed the typical polite manner--greeting them, smiling, thanking them--only to receive blank stares in return.

It's a nightmare we're not going to wake up from, unfortunately.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@JonRolfe8 @TheIndiaFilesIN Bosch. Excellent!

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@kevinvdahlgren Kevin, what allowed theft of up to $950 to be treated as a misdemeanor was Prop 47, which ignorant voters passed in 2014. Prop 36, which passed in 2024 after folks woke up, should have acted to erase some of the chaos allowed by Prop 47--but Newsom has done little to fund it.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@amylcris If I knew you personally, I'd send a check to fully fund it.

My dad was with an airline for 40 years. It's in my blood.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@SportingGreenSF "Weak messaging"? You're on thin ice with this nonsense.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@KNBR @knbrmurph @MarkusBoucher I have a feeling that Kuip wants no part of this.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@EricLDaugh It was likely exacerbated and amplified by the fact that one of the Giants' announcers, Mike Krukow, has a gay son.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

It wasn't just retail theft that was the concern when we voted for Prop 36, hoping to finally do away with the disaster created by Prop 47. It was to make our neighborhoods safer as well, as many of those same perpetrators were committing home burglaries. My husband and I were victims of one of those crimes.

I am appalled over the lack of funding we've seen for enforcement of Prop 36. I attended an informal Sheriff's meeting a few months ago, an introduction to the then-new San Mateo County Sheriff. Instead of focusing on the safety of our community, including actions to take to prevent copper wire theft (something that had been happening regularly and shutting down telecommunications), the soft-on-crime crowd was in attendance and was primarily concerned with protecting illegals and guaranteeing the Sheriff's Department's lack of cooperation with ICE.

God help us.

[BayAreaNativeGal @BayAreaNative20]

@maattttbrown @SFGate This doesn't look anything at all like my husband's Stanford class 😑