The bottom line on the Virginia Tech situation is that the shooter was a loner with no prior crime connections. He walked into a gun store and bought himself a killing machine. The idiotic/ignorant argument that gun control laws would only take guns away from law-abiding citizens is thereby debunked. Laws might have stopped the man, who it appears had a history of mental illness, from being able to procure the gun so easily. People BECOME criminals. They're not born that way. He certainly became one. The Virginia gun lobby (and that of everywhere else) has a massive amount of blood on its hands. Too bad nothing will change. Our president is an insensitive foolish jerk. Dana Perino's statement that the president still supports gun ownership rights came just minutes after all these people were shot. I think this was done so that people would attack his statements as callous and "too soon" (the two dumbest words in the English language), which of course simultaneously pulled the carpet out from under the feet of those who would advocate ending the endless killing spree that results from our to-say-the-least antiquated gun laws. @#$% him. The NRA will continue to murder our people.
On a slightly happier note, our transit system is crumbling. What a brouhaha (hi mom). The new T-Third St. line is "a disaster" according to all the richies that live in SoMa, but it's certainly not the first thing that has gone wrong. Everyday, I have to wrestle my way onto a bus that's late. It's gotten much worse over the 8 months I've lived in SF. People are just fed up. People curse at the driver, scream, bang on the windows, the drivers get angry. On Sunday, around 30 people boarded the 38-Geary inbound at each stop. I've never been on such a crowded vehicle, despite the fact that it's two lengths of a normal bus and it was Sunday! Oh well, at least they got the T-Third St. line going so they can move the rest of the African-Americans over to Oakland and prepare their historic neighborhood for a possible new football stadium and chic housing. Yay! Too bad the most traveled transit corridor in the western US (Geary from Ocean Beach to the Transbay terminal via Union Square) is still a crappy overcrowded bus that can't fit all of its passengers on a Sunday afternoon. Oh well, in this age of concern over carbon emissions, it sure is nice to see a major US city pushing people back into their cars, which they can all afford because all the poor are being driven out of the city. Three cheers for SF!
Which brings me to my last point. Should I really pay $850-$1100/month for a studio, just to stay here? If I moved to Oakland or Berkeley, it'd probably be $750-$1000. I've built my life here over the past 8 months. I have a steady job here. I plan to stay in the area and apply for college. Should I move to Berkeley or Oakland and take BART everyday? That's probably not much cheaper cuz BART is so expensive. Am I being held hostage? Oh well. If I stay in the city, my goal is to live close enough to work that I won't buy a bus pass, and I'll walk everywhere. That'd be even better for the world. I would really like some advice on this one.
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I didn't realize that you wanted comments, thought the question was rhetorical. Sounds to me like the answer to where to live should be based on where you want to live. I don't know what the cost of BART is, I assume there is some sort of monthly pass that is a bit cheaper than individual tickets. I don't know the comparative time and quality of the commutes, either. If one costs you an extra hour out of each day in comparison to the other then that is a consideration, but then again if you can read a book on the BART but have to stand on the bus, that is something to think about too. What do you want to do? That should be the bottom line.
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