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@icanmakeit - Because of course that'll be the one time corporate greedmonsters don't go with cost savings over customer convenience? Get real.

If you're going to drop by to be sanctimony, you can usually avoid the next comment smacking you around for acting as such by actually recommending one or two of those brews you hold in such high esteem, you tedious pedant.

Oh dear. I like some of the elements, but when put all together it's a bit too cartoonish for me.

Deal-breakers:

- Considerable distance from public transit (not so much of a problem in SF);

- Small-time landlords. Maybe I've had really bad luck, but all the individual owner-operated places I've lived at have had landlords who were slightly to seriously unbalanced. The corporate-run buildings may lack some soul, but they also lack some crazy -- and things actually get repaired when they break.

- Children. No, I don't hate them, and families have to live somewhere in this obscenely priced city. But I've lived in apartment buildings where there have been children, who are bored out of their minds and have nothing better to do. I'd rather deal with a caterwauling drunk on the sidewalk.

Theoj hits the nail squarely on the head: This area has been an improving neighborhood for decades, but it didn't make the news until the rich white people started moving in. This is what has irritated me about the gradual gentrification of this part of San Francisco, the problems these places have faced for years and years were met with no concern or a wall of indifference from our city leaders. Oh, but they were great for a photo op and a speech about how they all planned to Do Something... just right after they were re-elected. But anyway, all of a sudden now that the rich Caucasians have moved in, things are actually changing in these neighborhoods. The police who used to say "we can't do anything!" suddenly show up within seconds rather than minutes.

Oh well! If you can get rid of the all the colored people who look and speak differently than you by simply saying they're not allowed, just price 'em out of the neighborhood and Mission Accomplished!

peggy, unfortunately your Sears experience is very typical. It's no longer a brand name -- it's a warning label.

That's adorable. It would probably last all of five minutes when matched up against San Francisco's army of roving addict zombie thieves, but it would certainly be adorable for those five minutes.

This would look good in any space... if it were 1990.

I really want to like it. I like the shape of it, the suggestion of a beanbag without the, erm, beans. But the holes and the color chosen make it simply revolting.