“The Poorest neighbourhood in San Francisco” ?

Come over to Hunters point, Or around Silver avenue, Visitacion Valley ? ! It is nice and with some luck you will avoid Cancer clusters. You will meet “Bills” and “Linuses” in Hunters Point, they just wont be dealing free WiFi..

There are not many poor neighbourhoods left in San Francisco. If there are, these are definitely “investment opportunities” for the up-and-comings and Gavin’s friends. It won’t be long before the middle class has left the city too. And their children… San Francisco is the most wonderful city, yet it is mostly turning into a playground for the rich and the richer, the liberal left. It is both fantastic to see this city remain an island within the evil empire; but also disheartening to realize it is an island for the wealthiest only…

“The Poorest neighbourhood in San Francisco” ? Oakland ?

If the post was about how large elephants really are, well, they are very very big indeed. It is not made to hit the ground running..

Olivier

Let me help you pick a neighborhood in San Francisco.

I believe in a theory that supports that social and economic mobility is achieved by “agents” acting on “climbers”. We are ALL climbers and we are ALL agents. We are climbers when we seek to better our position, our height on the pyramid, and we are agents when we seek to improve others’ position. How much time, energy and money each one of us allocates to being a climber and to being an agent determines our profile as “mostly climber” or “mostly agent”. If people who rise higher become more and more of a climber, they are “sucking up the pull” from those higher than them, and that is detrimental to those lower than them, because there is less pull available to the lower, poorer ones. (Kind of like wertical bandwidth, uh?). In an ideal world, for every yard that you climb, you should help someone else below you climb a foot, say. This is what taxes try to do in a way, -but is government the best distribution machine?…

You near perfection when you achieve a balance between how much pull you suck (ie get help from others) and how much pull you give (ie help others), so that you maximize the overall height climbed by all climbers, including yourself. I often wonder whether the most altruistic lives might have been more efficient if they dedicated themselves to greater self-betterment before they helped others.

On airplanes we are always reminded to place the oxygen mask on OUR ADULT FACE first before we place it on a child’s…. why? Well, simple: if the adult can’t breathe he won’t be much good helping the failing child either!

Same thing in life: we need to climb with the help of others (do not kid yourself: you ONLY climb with the help of others even if they are not aware of being of help to you) before we can help others climb.

So to answer your question: NO, do NOT move to the poorest neighborhood in San Francisco. Move to one where from you will be best positioned to both move up AND help those in the poorest neighborhood get the hell out of it.

I have had these ideas for a long time regarding education. Now I realize that they can also be applied to social and economic status… maybe I should write a formal general math theory about it?… That would give The Necklaces a boost.

Hey, reader: seen my Necklaces blog?…