Reply #28: no one reads jack here anymore. it's the Fed's office setting the rate, not Pelosi. [View All]

[NuttyFluffers]

SF is a notoriously expensive market; that the gov't charges this much to recoup its investment in a downtown building isn't all that surprising. besides, as you say, it's from left pocket to right pocket in the same pants. it's the gov't paying off its investment in a city by renting it to a gov't employee.

any yet, this raises so much hulabaloo right now. and how many billions were flushed away just today in our two forays (wars) in Asia right now? people are like scared chattel right now, being herded to the slaughter, but balking about being crowded in by their neighbor. foolishness, that's what this place is now... the tent's too big, shut the flap, it's getting drafty.

edit: if i remember correctly, i think the new location is now more accessible by mass transit. the new location is like literally a hop, skip, and a jump from the Civic Center BART station (where scores of non-existent people at 4-6AM were obviously marching by not noticing a dying person -- as per last topic of stupidity about this area)...

nope, i'm wrong, actually both are pretty close. the old one is by the court house, behind the civic center plaza. the new one is across from the old Post Office, current home of 9th circuit court of appeals. it's in that funky new ugly modernist building. i guess they need more renters there... obviously the building's shape is doing them no favors.