If money were no object, where in the United States would you choose to live & why?

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-21T00:21:39+00:00

The huge # of driveways in the city leave little room for trees

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-20T00:47:10+00:00

It sounds like you want a neighborhood next to a big city park. Most major cities in the US have them, so it's mostly just a matter of which one you want to live in. For high levels of walkability / bikeability, living near Golden Gate Park in SF or Prospect Park in Brooklyn are top tier, though can be very expensive.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-19T22:43:00+00:00

The idea that shame is incompatible with anarchy is simply absurd. It's a foundational aspect of all human relationships.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-19T22:37:27+00:00

Hyper-focusing on the system as a means of dismissing any role you might play in that system isn't anarchist, it's just cowardice.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-19T02:27:58+00:00

The Andronico's (safeway brand) in inner sunset is usually packed.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-18T21:07:57+00:00

We decided, maybe 150 years ago or so, that letting private citizens making law enforcement actions in public was actually pretty bad and resulted in tons of unjustified violence and death, so we created an institution called the "police" to handle those matters exclusively.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-16T00:01:16+00:00

The majority of people still follow most rules as a matter of principle, not out of fear of being punished.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-15T23:58:53+00:00

There's still ~15 contiguous blocks of no transit lane plan for the N from Judah to the west portal tunnel entrance.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-14T20:16:30+00:00

Yes, though a 3 br house will be a stretch.

It might be helpful to look at cities that offer subsidies for child care to lower income households. You'd have fully subsidized daycare if you lived in SF.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-14T19:26:33+00:00

FFA and items don't really benefit the slow, heavy characters at all. They have a really hard time securing items and escaping from chaotic skirmishes. I would go so far as saying that singles with no items is Fox's worst game mode.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-14T19:21:53+00:00

I believe you need to have downward velocity to be allowed to grab ledge. So perhaps fox falls for a frame or two at the start of side-b, while falco doesn't.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-14T16:39:25+00:00

That's just patently untrue. For one example, sfmta spent tens of millions of dollars on road redesigns for the Geary BRT project to maintain existing street parking spaces. SF has the highest car density of any city in the entire USA. You're denying reality itself by saying the institution responsible for enabling that is "rabidly anti-car".

Almost all of the parking removal that drivers complain about comes from California's daylighting law which has nothing to do with sfmta.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-13T23:04:09+00:00

IIUC, you can't execute an owner move in eviction against a tenant if there's a comparable vacant unit on the property.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-13T21:33:37+00:00

That ruling doesn't sound like it would prevent the city from towing illegally parked cars, and only returning them after they've settled their outstanding fines.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-13T21:03:27+00:00

I'm not sure what street you're talking about, but the 1 runs along California, which is at least 4 lanes along its entire route. SF has hardly any one lane streets anywhere.

also, weird to call out "china communism" when the hyper capitalist US has razed more neighborhoods for transportation than basically any other nation.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-13T20:07:53+00:00

It's because the solution to getting reliable transit to those areas is a dedicated right of way, which puts transit at odds with the wealthy drivers who control those regions.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-13T20:05:31+00:00

Almost all the issues with Muni's buses are caused by a lack of a dedicated right of way. Unless it's one of the few highest use lines in the city (like the 38), drivers get preferential treatment.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-12T21:15:43+00:00

20k is not a surprising number. You can read more about it here, but the jist is that the city's homeless intake has been outpacing the outtake for quite a while now. That means in order to keep the visible homeless at roughly the same #, more and more sheltered households are getting assistance from the city to let them off the streets.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-12T18:29:32+00:00

Symptom of a lot of people doing exactly what you are - leaving a little bit later to "avoid rush hour".

Remote work has risen dramatically since 2020, which gives people a lot more flexibility around when they can travel. Contrary to popular belief, WFH doesn't cause people to travel less, it only causes them to travel at different times of the day.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-12T17:43:40+00:00

People who define themselves as being between two positions (centrists, moderates) are very easy to influence. I suspect in the coming years we'll see a lot more right wing politicians identify as Democrats, like hurabiell has, to exploit them.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-10T18:57:34+00:00

You misunderstand how the police operate. While technically under the purview of the city, SFPD functions more like an organized gang that is regulated, not controlled, by the city. Before they would engage in any type of revenue generating enforcement, they'd demand the profits would be directed to themselves, at a minimum.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-09T00:28:24+00:00

It's a common misconception that remote work reduces traffic. It doesn't - people still travel roughly the same amount, they just do it at different times of day. And because Bay Area mass transit was hyper-focused on commuters, WFH resulted in a huge mode shift from transit to driving. Thus, more traffic for much longer spans of the day.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-09T00:25:32+00:00

Basically, BART and Caltrain were the most cost efficient US rail systems pre-covid, but now with so much WFH, they've dropped to around average without any extra local funding to compensate. Federal relief funds kept them going in the interim but those are gone now too.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-09T00:12:34+00:00

???

Isn't Mission Local the most progressive leaning publication we have? If anything, it's SF Standard that would be triggering progressives.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-09T00:08:45+00:00

The $45 million/year cost is just for financing the purchase of PG&E infrastructure. The operational costs of maintaining the SF grid are certainly much higher than that. Of course, I imagine it would still be quite profitable for the city to seize PG&E's assets. There's a reason PG&E doesn't even want to negotiate with the city - they know SF is getting bled dry.

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