Now it’s time for you to listen. Why don’t you go look out the window and look at the dozens of cranes putting up new office buildings, new condos, new apartments, new retail. Now I will use small words - those are going to be staffed with service professionals. That is a new job being created. Where does it say that…

“They can afford to make up for it”

Wow, take it easy with the gratuitous insults on the people moving here. Spoiled? You are the one who sounds spoiled. You rent a place- you don’t own- you rent a place and you get upset that other people are moving in and your rent is going up. What makes you so special that we should keep everything just how you want…

I look around and I see a very healthy economy with great restaurants both old and new. Am I supposed to cry if a dildo shop in the Castro loses its lease?

Do you just always complain no matter what? So you didn’t buy a home during ‘the influx’ - there’s been an influx for 20 years, but whatever. So why don’t you scratch up enough to buy a starter home in a modest part of town, get some equity and move up as you earn more and saved more. That’s how it’s done. You don’t…

“These people need housing and services in the areas where they reside” - have you ever walked thru the Tenderloin? There is nothing but low income residence, one after the other. Any other city would have re-zoned that whole area since it’s a complete disaster zone.

It’s a punishment if the city singles out a single industry and puts the entire burden on them.

These newcomers have drastically increased your property values. If you call that being ‘royally fucked over’ I don’t know what to say.

I guess all those new people who moved into town didn’t buy groceries, get their dry cleaning done, eat at restaurants, or pay any local taxes? Wrong! They did all those things. The idea that you are going to single out individuals based on the industry in which they work is farcical and is one more indication that…

Furthermore Anna Merlan from Jezebel wrote a snide article early on with the headline