I now live in one of the "Bluest" communities in the nation. OB!

[maveric]

Ocean Beach, San Diego.
And I'm loving it allready. http://www.oceanbeach.com/
All hippie, artist musician and holistic types here. All but for one Starbucks, OB has all small family owned businesses.
Every Wednesday they close down a 3 block area and hold the weekly "OB Farmer's Market". Fresh produce,flowers, meats, crafts, ethnic food stands.... And free music too! They usually have at least two local bands playing in the street,along with the guitar and tribal drum ensemble's that line the street.
This may be the coolest community, short of Haight Ashbury, in CA.
And we are surrounded by freep communities too. Not a single bu$h-lover here though! Anti-bu$h and fascism posters all around.
OB is also the home of the ciuntry's first "Dog Beach". A beach area used only by people with their canine companions.
There are groups in OB that are trying to secede from the nation and become a sovereign state. Where do I sign?

http://www.beachcalifornia.com/ob.html

I feel like I'm in heaven!

[LeftyMom]

1. No competion from the Haight.

There is a Gap at the corner of Haight and Ashbury. Really. It's all yuppiefied and everybody there drives a Volvo. The street is lined with crepe shops, and a handfull of head shops hang on for the tourists but you get thrown out if you call a bong a bong. :eyes:

[maveric]

2. You cant say bong in OB either.

Its kind of funny that the most popular landmark in OB is a headshop called "The Black".First headshop in San Diego, 1968, I beleive.
Tourists who visit OB always browse The Black.

[LeftCoast]

5. Of course, the 100s and 100s of homeless kids sorta dent the yuppie image

a wee bit. :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. 'S'wrong wit' crepe shops?

I ate at a creperie around 19th and Guerrero once, and it was great. :9



'Course, we had to wait forever, and it was way overpriced. Oh, and it had a foofy French name.



It was okay, I guess.

[LeftyMom]

16. It's a little bougie, I think.

How many creperies does one neighborhood need?

[zonkers]

3. I know O.B. Great town. Has it changed in the last four years?

I used to take my dog to dog beach and to the self wash -- and then grab a hero at the sub place that's right there. Ahhh, Cali.

[maveric]

4. And then there's "Hodad's"!

Best Sloppy, Greasy Cheeseburger on the west coast!

[CTyankee]

6. My town, New Haven, is pretty blue too so I know what you mean

It's a good feeling, knowing that many people around you feel the same way you do. You can always find something to do and someone to do it with.

[speedoo]

7. Some blue communities I have lived in...

Columbia, Maryland. Jim Rouse's "New Town", conceived as a place of diversity... ethnic, racial, cultural and economic.

Fairport, NY. A Rochester suburb that seemed to have a lot of people I agreed with, politically speaking.

Glad to hear New Haven is blue... I always liked that city.:hi:

I liked visiting New Haven, a welcome respite from Ridgefield, a rethug bastion, where I lived for a long time.

[CTyankee]

10. Ridgefield is pretty, tho, in a picture post card kind of way

but I know what you mean. Where do you live now? Is it blue?

[speedoo]

11. Brooklyn, NY.

A blue city, for sure. Unfortunately I live in a district that has the only rethug US Congressman, although that's because he also represents Staten Island, long a rethug bastion (you may remember the Molinaris).

[CTyankee]

12. My son and his wife live in Brooklyn, but a different part

He's near BAM. She works for a Manhattan law firm, he is an assistant DA in the Brooklyn DA's office. They like Brooklyn, but are looking for greener pastures.

[speedoo]

13. Very different.

That's "downtown", a lot happening there. I went to high school in a nearby neighborhood, Ft. Greene, one of the more recent gentrified sections. Where I live now is very boring, relatively speaking.

on edit.. where in New Haven do you live? Anywhere near Yale?

[CTyankee]

15. Nope. In Westville, 4 blocks from where Joe L. used to live

It's a nice neighborhood. I used to work downtown, now I am semi-retired and just go down there for lunch with friends or to Lamont HQ to volunteer for phone banks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear maverick!

I'm so happy you've found a terrific home!

Nice new home, great job, and a lovely girlfriend.......

No wonder you feel as though you've gone to heaven! And you didn't have to die to do it, either!

A good friend of mine has a booth at your Farmer's Mkt.....Dr. Chocolate!

Try her stuff sometime.......superb hand-made chocolates, great pastries and so on!

Tell her Peggy sent you! I see her every week up here in El Segundo....

:hi:

[Karenca]

14. I live in Greenwich Village

It's just perfect here :party: