I'm planning on moving in an RV 😊 Hopefully we don't get robbers but we'll be installing an alarm system that will immediately alert 911. But holy shit, to think I thought I'd be illegally growing magic shrooms 🤣
Excellent, informative, and engaging. More photos/video of Oakland would have been nice, as the city is quite beautiful and the Town's ongoing revitalization has made its once louche downtown now snap-crackle-and-pop combination of classic twentieth century styles (art deco, mid-century modernism) and the twenty-first century meta-modern moment. Lake Merritt, the tony hillside neighborhoods, vibey Uptown, Planet Hipster Temescal, Portlandia-by-the Bay Rockridge, pricey Montclair and Crocker Highlands, that abfab zoo in the ills, chill-lax JLS, etc. would make for great "show-not-tell," clinch -the-deal visuals. Jess Sayen'.... Still, the presenter has an utterly appropriate, very "Oakland-esh" cool about her (very smart, somehow both ernest and arch)--I think we've all seen her sister (mother? cousin? African-Diaspora Jungian-Buddhist therapist?) hanging at Duende before the gig at the Fox. What's a Manhattanite exiled to monochromatic, no-it-hasn't-been-wonderfully-weird-for-two-decades, couldn't-get-any Whiter-Shade-of-Pale San Francisco to do? Hang out in Oakland.... Jess Sayen', parti deux...
Yay, another troll. I WISH you could single-handedly solve the housing crisis with a UA-cam comment. I'm not saying that there are not archetypes of gentrifiers who want to preserve culture and improve access to resources for everybody, but it's clear from your other comments that when you say "gentrifier," YOU are assuming that every gentrifier has the intent of taking, not preserving and that the convo isn't up for intellectual debate. I acknowledge that there ARE high-income earners who don't care about the cities in which they live and work in the way that others, including other gentrifiers, do. You likely won't care about what I'm writing next because you have a trolling schedule to stick to, but I'll share for others: I moved here because Oakland had/has a teacher shortage, and I was placed here as a science teacher. If gentrifiers are folks earning the median income or higher for the area they move into to, it was me who sparked the gentrification wave with my Oakland Unified School District salary of $34,000/year while living with 5 roommates (2010 -2014). I was a teacher for 4 years, and during that period, the cost of living skyrocketed across the Bay while my teacher salary stayed practically the same. Salaries had been the same for 18 years. I had wanted to move here (Oakland/SF) since I was a teenager because it represented/was a refuge for the "other." And education - for the most part - is valued here. I'm from Blanchard, Louisiana, a very homophobic and racist part of the United States - the type of place where you got KKK pamphlets on your driveway in the mid-90s and heard racial slurs on the daily from your "friends'" parents. I'm GAY - Oakland has one of the highest lesbian populations per capita in the US (3rd highest count in the US). I wanted to make a home in a place where that aspect of my identity was reinforced...hell, CELEBRATED, and in a place where my chosen family and I could feel safe. My past partners who lived in urban parts of the South were targeted for rape because they were open/expressive about their sexual orientation. "Expressive" just means they were affectionate in public or maybe they decided to wear something with a rainbow on it. So, yeah, wasn't a safe place for gay women or anyone who represented "the other" (any identity that didn't reinforce the dominant culture/social hierarchy/patriarchy). So, there are gentrifiers who have come to the Bay Area not because they think it'd just be "cool" to live here: they also want community and safety, and it's in their best interest to preserve the culture that brought them here in the first place. We are ALL taking up space on land that was not originally ours. Should we be conscious of how we are in this beautiful space we call the Bay Area? Absolutely. Should we do our best to make this place accessible and affordable to everyone. Yes, and I'm also grateful to be here because it's a place that challenges me to think about that. And just so y'all know: the Bay Area, including Oakland, is now full of "transplants." The 2020 census revealed that only 49.14% of Oakland residents were born in CALIFORNIA. I'm not sure what percentage of those folks were also born in OAKLAND, but I doubt it's very high. One thing is for sure: many folks who currently live in Oakland, whether born here or not, care about preserving the culture of Oakland, and some care/WANT to do something about making housing accessible to folks who are not making well above the median income (now, above $100,000) in Oakland. Finger pointing and arguments about gentrification over the past ten years+ have done little to nothing in resolving Oakland's housing crisis. The City of Oakland will enforce moratoriums limiting the use of a building that has been vacant for 20+ years, meanwhile approving the construction of a new hotel on a vacant lot in downtown Oakland, all in the name of creating "affordable housing." The City of Oakland enforced development impact fees to create a fund for building affordable housing - where are those MILLIONS of dollars? As I stated in the video, we must redirect our attention to Oakland's civic leaders.
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As a 10-year resident of Oakland I applaud your rundown of practical and true information.
Thank you for posting this! More on Oakland please.
As someone from Oakland, born & raised, PLEASE STOP MOVING HERE. WE ARE FULL 😂
This is awesome! I want to move in 2021
I'm planning on moving in an RV 😊 Hopefully we don't get robbers but we'll be installing an alarm system that will immediately alert 911. But holy shit, to think I thought I'd be illegally growing magic shrooms 🤣
Thanks for this video! What can you share about the Golden Gate and Paradise Park neighborhoods in Oakland?
Why YES. Working on it. =)
@@livinginthebayarea yay! Can’t wait to see it. ❤️
A international student is safe in oakland
Gun culture is very popular in usa
I live in Oakland 😃😃😃
Excellent, informative, and engaging.
More photos/video of Oakland would have been nice, as the city is quite beautiful and the Town's ongoing revitalization has made its once louche downtown now snap-crackle-and-pop combination of classic twentieth century styles (art deco, mid-century modernism) and the twenty-first century meta-modern moment.
Lake Merritt, the tony hillside neighborhoods, vibey Uptown, Planet Hipster Temescal, Portlandia-by-the Bay Rockridge, pricey Montclair and Crocker Highlands, that abfab zoo in the ills, chill-lax JLS, etc. would make for great "show-not-tell," clinch -the-deal visuals. Jess Sayen'....
Still, the presenter has an utterly appropriate, very "Oakland-esh" cool about her (very smart, somehow both ernest and arch)--I think we've all seen her sister (mother? cousin? African-Diaspora Jungian-Buddhist therapist?) hanging at Duende before the gig at the Fox. What's a Manhattanite exiled to monochromatic, no-it-hasn't-been-wonderfully-weird-for-two-decades, couldn't-get-any Whiter-Shade-of-Pale San Francisco to do? Hang out in Oakland....
Jess Sayen', parti deux...
Houselessness? Is this the same as homelessness?
STOP GENTRIFYING MY TOWN 🤬
Yay another gentrifier
Yay, another troll. I WISH you could single-handedly solve the housing crisis with a UA-cam comment. I'm not saying that there are not archetypes of gentrifiers who want to preserve culture and improve access to resources for everybody, but it's clear from your other comments that when you say "gentrifier," YOU are assuming that every gentrifier has the intent of taking, not preserving and that the convo isn't up for intellectual debate. I acknowledge that there ARE high-income earners who don't care about the cities in which they live and work in the way that others, including other gentrifiers, do.
You likely won't care about what I'm writing next because you have a trolling schedule to stick to, but I'll share for others: I moved here because Oakland had/has a teacher shortage, and I was placed here as a science teacher. If gentrifiers are folks earning the median income or higher for the area they move into to, it was me who sparked the gentrification wave with my Oakland Unified School District salary of $34,000/year while living with 5 roommates (2010 -2014). I was a teacher for 4 years, and during that period, the cost of living skyrocketed across the Bay while my teacher salary stayed practically the same. Salaries had been the same for 18 years.
I had wanted to move here (Oakland/SF) since I was a teenager because it represented/was a refuge for the "other." And education - for the most part - is valued here. I'm from Blanchard, Louisiana, a very homophobic and racist part of the United States - the type of place where you got KKK pamphlets on your driveway in the mid-90s and heard racial slurs on the daily from your "friends'" parents. I'm GAY - Oakland has one of the highest lesbian populations per capita in the US (3rd highest count in the US). I wanted to make a home in a place where that aspect of my identity was reinforced...hell, CELEBRATED, and in a place where my chosen family and I could feel safe. My past partners who lived in urban parts of the South were targeted for rape because they were open/expressive about their sexual orientation. "Expressive" just means they were affectionate in public or maybe they decided to wear something with a rainbow on it. So, yeah, wasn't a safe place for gay women or anyone who represented "the other" (any identity that didn't reinforce the dominant culture/social hierarchy/patriarchy). So, there are gentrifiers who have come to the Bay Area not because they think it'd just be "cool" to live here: they also want community and safety, and it's in their best interest to preserve the culture that brought them here in the first place. We are ALL taking up space on land that was not originally ours. Should we be conscious of how we are in this beautiful space we call the Bay Area? Absolutely. Should we do our best to make this place accessible and affordable to everyone. Yes, and I'm also grateful to be here because it's a place that challenges me to think about that.
And just so y'all know: the Bay Area, including Oakland, is now full of "transplants." The 2020 census revealed that only 49.14% of Oakland residents were born in CALIFORNIA. I'm not sure what percentage of those folks were also born in OAKLAND, but I doubt it's very high. One thing is for sure: many folks who currently live in Oakland, whether born here or not, care about preserving the culture of Oakland, and some care/WANT to do something about making housing accessible to folks who are not making well above the median income (now, above $100,000) in Oakland.
Finger pointing and arguments about gentrification over the past ten years+ have done little to nothing in resolving Oakland's housing crisis. The City of Oakland will enforce moratoriums limiting the use of a building that has been vacant for 20+ years, meanwhile approving the construction of a new hotel on a vacant lot in downtown Oakland, all in the name of creating "affordable housing." The City of Oakland enforced development impact fees to create a fund for building affordable housing - where are those MILLIONS of dollars? As I stated in the video, we must redirect our attention to Oakland's civic leaders.
Sheeeeeeit