Comments on: San Francisco’s “coolest” neighborhood: La Mission…hands down!

By: Elainsf

Elainsf — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:13:51 +0000

Potrero Hill is SF’s best neighborhood TO LIVE IN for these reasons:

1) VIEWS – don’t have one? Step outside, you get one every time you head towards any of the other neighborhoods or just to get a cup of Farley’s coffee. Can’t do that? Watch a commercial or movie, it’s likely it includes a scene shot from here.

2) PARKING – every one of the other neighborhoods has you looking and wishing you could drink and drive while looking.

3) SUNSHINE – if we don’t have it, neither do you. If we do, you probably don’t.

4) PROXIMITY – 280, 101, 80 and trains and the #10 make getting up and down the peninsula or to the East Bay, or to the beach or along the Embarcadero or FiDi or the ballpark a snap. Bernal, Bayview, Glen Park, Mission, Noe, Castro, Soma – are all neighbors, in fact La Mission is our backyard. Every thing else is really minutes ‘cept for the Golden Gate Bridge or Golden Gate Park which really is meant for a lovely drive anyway.

5) COMMUNITY – it’s tight and effective and gets more and more inclusive vs. many of the other conformist, hands-off-the-merchandise ‘hoods. This means childless hipsters, muralist breeders, biogeneticists, game designers, street soldiers, old-timers, turistas, baristas and anything with paws come together for the Good Life. And it’s small enough that everyone knows your name, “my friend”.

By: missions finest

missions finest — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:50:13 +0000

You YUPPIES need to get out of the Mission! Wishing it was like it was before in the mission district~!!

Get your own culture………

By: fluj

fluj — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:40:43 +0000

I just popped into an open house apartment for rent on 24th and Valencia, right above Papa Lote. Holy cow. $1550 for a 1 br in the thick of things, with no parking? And it was thronged with people. If that’s wha a renter’s market is supposed to look like I will be a monkey’s uncle.

By: thefrontsteps

thefrontsteps — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:27:05 +0000

@Ashley,

LOVE IT!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:57:02 +0000

How do you feel about Russian Hill?

By: thefrontsteps

thefrontsteps — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:16:27 +0000

@chica,

cuz we’re waiting for you to tell us how great it is!

By: chica

chica — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:54:08 +0000

why isn’t anyone talking about potreo hill?

By: AMinSF

AMinSF — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:27:54 +0000

sparky- no, i respected your comments, and ultimately, to each his own. selecting a hood is a very personal thing, heavily interlaced with one’s personal psychological makeup. i’m sure i’ll probably start hating on the mission in 10 years or so, given the ever growing soccer-mom factor…partly why i’m not too worried about the sporadic violence, which somewhat keeps the yuppie factor in check. come to think of it, the notion of SF becoming a place only for the very rich and very poor, i.e. bye-bye boring upper-middle class american families, as far as i’m concerned: bring it on!

By: Sparky

Sparky — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:50:15 +0000

AMinSF,

Hope I’m not part of your list of people who are stereotyping the mission and not understanding the nuances. I started this off by saying I didn’t think the mission was that great, but I also said I lived there for 5 years. None the less, I don’t think it’s that cool, for all the reasons others have stated here and more.

But, your comparing it to noe valley, so I agree with you there the mission over noe valley for sure.

By: AMinSF

AMinSF — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:36:04 +0000

urban dweller- excellent post, and my sentiments exactly. it easy to tell who lives and comsequently understands the naunces of the mish, as opposed to those who simply stereotype it as dangerous or laden with hipsters.

the whole point of my OP was that i could have continued lived in sterile valley…whoops…noe valley, but specifically chose not to. the mission is welcoming to people like me, seemingly so full of contradictions

cheers