The Mission
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San Francisco, CA 94110
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84 Reviews for The Mission
What a neighborhood! Cheap stuff, great second hand clothing, yummy food, warm sunny days, friendly and sometimes colorful people.
This is the passionate heart of the city with hot flavor and sexy edginess. Come here to feel alive or when you can't afford, or do not have the time for a vacation in a warm, sunny place where they speak Spanish and have great food and bars and you can buy things for cheap.
Tintin and Snowy loves the Mission. It feels like a good place to have an adventure.
Ew is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the xenophobic people who live in such trashy squalor. 25 years after the Mission set itself up as a "sanctuary" for illegal refugees of Reagan's military actions in Central America most of the people still can't or won't speak English and they refuse to integrate or assimilate with the culture of San Francisco - preferring instead to keep this area a somewhat self contained ghetto.
The area is also home to the hardest of the hardcore loony leftwingers who are just as xenophobic as the Latinos - they'll verbally and physically assault anyone who seems to be a "yuppie" and damage cars if they don't like the manufacturer or the gas mileage.
There are small pockets of artsy, bohemian types and that's really the only reason to brave the pick-pockets, junkies, hookers and thugs.
"We were so happy poor but when [you] got rich, that's when our signals got crossed..."
I'm really sensitive when it comes to my neighborhood. The way I see it, newbies* come here to "rough it out" and imitate the life of the poor. Once they find their "real job," they'll be outta here in less time than it takes to spot the nearest crackie. But for me, this is where I grew up.
I have lived in the Mission all 24 years of my life. I went to Flynn Elementary, did grocery shopping at all the produce and meat markets on 24th Street with my mom, satisfied sugar cravings with 25 cent cookies at King's Bakery, etc.
I understand why more and more people appreciate the Mission for what it is NOW, but would these same people have had such an affinity for it 10 years ago? What about 15 years ago? Back then it wasn't safe to be out on 24th or 18th after 4pm because of all the gang violence. Have you ever seen a grown man get pushed out of a bus window? Have you ever seen a kid get gutted in the back of the 14? Has your mom and her fellow shoppers ever been held hostage at a Casa Lucas? Has a random gunman ever showed up to your elementary school and stuck up two of your classmates for no reason? Did your elementary school have gun drills because stray bullets entered from the projects across the street?
I can answer affirmatively to all of the above, as can other people who grew up in the old Mission. It's not that I miss all that ghetto shit, but at the same time I feel like I've lost an old friend. Because of TICs, people I grew up with were forced to relocate at the last minute. Mediocre coffee shops have replaced family-owned businesses that used to do a fine job of repairing your worn shoes or hemming that dress that was a few inches too long. Burritos can cost you up to $9.
Yet after all that, I still give my neighborhood four stars cuz you can't take the old Mission outta me (yeah, I still wear a mean mug cuz you had to wear a straight face as you walked past the cholos) and because I still live here.
*Just as a disclaimer, the newbies I'm referring to our well-off people who can easily afford to live elsewhere, yet move into the Mission or the Tenderloin and displace families who struggle to make ends meet.
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I used to live right on the border of Castro and Mission, but it's been awhile since I have actually walked around the neighborhood. As part of our weekly walking trip we decided to take a walk from our house to the butcher shop on Mission between 22nd and 23rd. I really enjoyed our time there! I don't think it's a place to just wander, but if you set a goal like we did, it's an experience. Also, if you are there, check out the produce markets. While they don't have everything what you can get is great quality and really cheap. With today's prices, think we may be going to the Mission a lot more than before!
The Mission has my heart.
I am sitting in my tiny apartment in Paramount and I still can't shake it out of my head. It felt like home. I mean, they had it down pat--from the crummy liquor stores to the hundreds of shops and establishments with signs exclusively in Spanish. It felt like LA but with better transportation. Extra stars for having a kick ass high school that looked like a gnarly church.
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Because they all reject me, the hot biotches. I hope they all die witrh their STDs and their bi-sexual New College lifestyles. Well, you'
re not getting an education you ho's! Just herpes. Damn you all, grrr. Every time I go to the mission I just get frustrated, then l;ater I have to rub one out to Troi, much as my hero and savior Reg Barclay, the only man who could find the voyager and combine in unity with the super smart alien thing.
Once upon a time, I used to live in a place just like the Mission, only it was the ghetto of Hollywood. Like the Mission, it had cute shops, great taquerias, and cheap bars. And also like the Mission it was dirty, covered in dog AND human feces, littered with drug dealers and users, and not the safest place for a single gal to be at 1 in the morning. However, unlike the Mission, none of my friends would dare venture into my neighborhood in Hollywood.
Now don't get me wrong... I go to the Mission to drink, and eat, and shop. I just don't think it's the be-all-end-all of neighborhoods and I certainly don't understand the people who seem to glorify the poverty in the area. Trust me, it's not cool being poor and living in filth.
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Theres enough fun bars and places to eat here, that you kinda forget about all the vagrants shuffling around.
i'm so over the mission distirct! you hipsters can have it, it's dirty, smelly, druggie, and bummy. FYI- i use to hang out in the mission back in 92-96 before it got gentrified, so no, i'm not marina either. 2 stars are for the taqueria's, other than that, it's all yours you damn hipsters!
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To "Ben P." You are exactly what's wrong, though not entirely, with the Mission. Diversity is great, (Love that about the Mission) Gentrification is NOT. I grew up in this 'hood and has watched its change. And though I no longer live in the area, I still find myself here from time to time.
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The Mission cured a bit of my homesick of Hollywood. That area with a whole bunch of little shops with Spanish on, it looks just like Santa Monica and Vermont.
The bumpy roads driving is just like in Hollywood too. The dirtiness, yes.
Thank you Mission. Please stay this way, so that I can come time to time when I feel homesick.
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Okay. So I've fought the stereotype for a while but here goes.. I'm a vegan tight pants wearing fixie riding living in the mission hipster. I used to make fun of hipsters, note previous yelp reviews, but the longer I am in the city and the longer I ride my bike here I have begun to notice the change. I spend my off days in Dolores Park soaking up the sun, drinking in dive bars with other like minded folks (although I rarely pay for booze, that's what the flask is for) and thrift shopping to my heart's content. Some girl stopped me inside Buffalo Exchange on Valencia this Sunday and asked to take a picture of me for an online fashion blog. Commented on my Chrome bag and rolled up pant leg and basically made me feel like a complete tool for about 5 seconds before I realized I didn't give a shit. Oh well. I'm a hipster. Sue me.
Oh & the Mission is sweet. There is that as well. Although I am over my small ass dinky apartment across from the projects. I need a new home. Can I come sleep in your closet? I'm sure it'll be bigger then my room.
I love the Mission. I was born at General Hospital and my father is one of the co-founders of the Mission Cultural Center, so I guess the Mission is mine by association. Or at least that's how I like to think of it.
My main issue with the Mission is not the crackheads or the homeless or the lack of parking (even though I really hate that) or that it's dirty. In fact, I like that it's dirty. I love the graffiti everywhere. I love the drunk artists in front of La Boheme. I love the seedy taquerias that give my white Marin/Walnut Creek friends food poisoning because they are pussies and their stomachs can't handle the good shit. It's not even the high level of crime, even though that does make me sad. No, none of these things bother me.
It's the gentrification and the hipsters. Goddamn I hate the hipsters.
So for all of you who hate on the Mission, think it's a ghetto, cry about the filth, rampant drug use, or sketchy characters, do us all a favor: get the fuck out. Thank you in advance.
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so ugh -this is a typical night in the mish
breaking into my mommas home to raid her couch for loose change.
somehow magically coming up with 60$ for a G
my twink anorexic junkie best friend somehow stealing two jugs of carlo rossi from some yuppie super market (FYI- yuppies are oblivious to crime)
heading out to the mission.
drinking 2liters of that crack juice in a 10 minute period in some nasty side alley on cap next to various live rape scenes and old burritos.
break out the snowflakes and suddenly its beginning to look like christmas.
oh the mission, i met my future husband in those back alleys.
catch me at the phone booth (no im not a tranny senor - i'm just tall)
the beauty bar (FIX YOUR RESTROOM STALLS FOR REAL DAMN)
and medjool (i like to pass out on the lawn chairs on the roof)
the mission makes - trashy HELLa classy
NORTE' SIDIN
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I loved living in the Mission. Here in the snow and ice of the Northeast, I miss it even more.
I don't seem like the typical Mission resident. I have no hipster cred whatsoever; my music taste is plebeian, my hair has never seen a funky cut, and I don't speak a word of Spanish (which I regret, the music and hair not so much.)
But I loved it. I loved the sun, my apartment, the sun during BBQs on my roofdeck, the flatness cause I walked everywhere, bars with the touchy porn game, having favorite taquerias for different kinds of burritos, delicious fancy comfort food restaurants, and having enough different ice cream places that one Saturday afternoon we did an "Ice Cream Crawl."
I have a lot of awesome and not awesome Mission stories, and if I ever move back to the Bay Area I would live there again in a heartbeat.
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I live in the Mission, and it's great. Gentrification! What's up, biatches?
Do I have to shoo the occasional bum or druggie out of the nook in front of the garage? Yes.
Do I occasionally find mystery material on the sidewalk as I go to work? Yes.
Do I occasionally find not-very-mysterious material on the sidewalk as I go to work? Yes.
Have I been hit on by a crack whore? Yes.
Do I live in a 1700+ square foot condo with broad-plank heartwood floors, two fireplaces, a fully updated kitchen and bathroom, coffered ceilings and plaster medallions above every light fixture, less than a 15-minute commute from work, with a huge backyard, for less than $800k? YES. Hello, Mission!
Bring me more Mission, any time. Those of you from the Marina who don't like my hood? No problem. Stay where you are. Enjoy the 350 sunless days a year.
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There are some places in the Mission that smell so disgusting that you just want to throw the F up. But I love it. I love the nitty gritty atmosphere, the excitement, the authentic Mexican food, and the hip bike scene up the block on Valencia. I appreciate the Mission's genuine nature and the people that make it what it is. It's really different than anywhere else in the city. Plus, it's sunny all the time here.
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Sometimes you have to wade through slime and shit to find the treasures (think of Indiana Jones).
Such is the Mission. The people are the best; who cares about the rest?
Diversity.
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Have fun paying extreme amounts of rent money to live in a fucking ghetto. Yes, the Mission is a fucking ghetto. 15-20 years ago this place was even worse, but do to retarded hipsters and even dumber out of towners this place became hip. too bad it has the second highest murder rate in the city and is filled with transients, drug dealers, gang members and junkies. Not to mention Mission street is the dirtest street in the city. once again, have fun buying into the facade of the mission. its a fucking GHETTO!
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Getting dropped off at my friend's house while I was in town here, words like 'sketchy' came to mind as I tried to read the graffiti on the 4th floor of a building, and observed the poor bums muddling about at street level. However, we:
-walked around the area all night
-ate at a tasty and decently-priced tapas place
-wandered a couple over-priced boutiques (which ones aren't?)
-I made friends with her friends
-had various drinks at various bars
and I did not get a single creepy guy yelling obscenities at me, nor sketchy guys trying to pick me up, and nobody was mugged (except of their sobriety). I guess the exception is that one dude who walked past me when I was standing outside checking my voicemail, but he only mustered a mumbled obscenity.
P.S. Leanne V's post is great, though. I do like your scarf and bike.
P.P.S. The places we drank at were happily void of any pretentious bartenders and bustling but not grossly crowded. I'd probably trade bars in DC for this area any day..but I'd trade bars in DC for a lot of things..
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I'm sorry, but I am going to have to give the mission a less than favorable review. It should be noted that this review of the mission views the district strictly in terms of a place to party...not a place to live. My sister used to live in Bernal Heights and we would hang out in the mission a lot...that was cool.
As far as a place to go out though, I have always been dissappointed. Every bar is tiny and dive-y, and I know that some people like that, but I find it boring and claustraphobic. The only bar I have truly enjoyed in the mission is El Rio...but it is only fun if you go with a group of friends.
I tried to like the mission, but I can't. So, sorry.
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Yeah, that's right, people, I DO THINK I'M COOLER THAN YOU BECAUSE I LIVE IN THE MISSION!!!
So, STFU and DEAL WITH IT ALREADY!!!
uh, just kidding...well, sort of.
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Love the Mission,
but understand that It's not for everyone.
Ya gotta be able to laugh about the guy following you with your girl friends hollering at them. It's funny, really. They are too shy to say something real, so they yell knowing you'll walk by.
Take shit load of good restaurants, good parks (watch out for Buena Vista Park little shadier than the rest), dance, art and movie venues with murals bloody everywhere and you got a slice of the Mission.
Never had trouble with gangs and such, and I've been round there for 12 years. Keep your head on swivel, and stay alert and you fine.
Note: Don't really know the 21+ scene, i'll update in a year.
Food Places Hit up:
(Balompie, La Mexicana, Metate, Dianta's, Jarritos)
Hate it or love it, this is going to be the last "real" neighborhood in San Francisco.
Walk down Valencia street, you won't find a single chain restaurant.
Look at Valencia Gardens, its a housing project, yet could pass as a gated community.
You got gourmet restaurants (foreign cinema, Tokyo Go Go, Delfina) next to $5 taquerias.
If SF is about tolerance and the struggle for change, this is it. I'm glad its my hood.
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Absolutely favorite neighborhood in San Francisco! We came here so many times during vacation. Mostly because this is where the food was good and cheap! My friend also lives here and we had to drop her off after hanging out.
This place is perfect mix of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Jackson Heights and New York City! It was like I was back home. There is NOTHING like this in Seattle. I loved seeing all the Latin people and the hipsters all mingling about. This neighborhood is cool and I wish we had a place like this in Seattle.
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I'm not sure why everyone has to go hatin' on the Mission. Sure it's got it's problems and what neighborhood doesn't? I live in the Mission and I love it. And no, I don't talk smack about every other neighborhood in SF - I think they (mostly) ALL have great qualities and maybe less than great qualities.
News flash - there ARE some normal people living here too, that don't fall into the hipster/bohemian/crack smoking homeless categories. We landed in the Mission after moving from San Diego last year, and we wouldn't change a thing. It's got an energy to it I just don't think you find everywhere.
Yep, I'm sure in time we'll grow tired of looking at the trash, the in-your-face drugs and the hipsters walking around like they own the fucking neighborhood when they don't even live there. Until then I'm more than happy to call it my home.
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dear average mission inhabitant:
you're not better, cooler, hipper, snazzier, earth-friendlier, smarter or more "real" than everyone else (no, not even marina folks). so get over yourself.
i like your scarf and your bike, though.
love,
leanne v.
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My dad, from the Midwest, just took a bus here to go "sightseeing."
I'm just hoping he doesn't get stabbed or pee'd on.
My bet? He'll call me in 20 minutes at work asking me how the hellllll to get out of there alive.
That being said, the Mission does have great burritos.
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I love the mission! So warm and sunny..... The atmosphere rocks. Sure its a little dirty, but people are having a good time around here. Some of my mission favorites:
Mission Pie
Red Cafe
Pops
La Corneta
St. Francis Cafe
To name few.....
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um. I hate living here. I used to hate driving through here when I didn't live here. Capp Street is a parking lot. Lookey there! There's a person just casually walking in front of my moving car like it's a park on a Sunday. And there, are cars in the middle of the street with their windows rolled down and somebody leaned in talking to them. And there, there, in broad daylight, are three people sitting on the stoop smoking crack. Yes, it could be tobacco maybe but do you need a glass pipe for that?
It is always loud. I am always awoken at Ridiculous AM in the morning to the sounds of ____. Fill in the blank. I've heard pretty much everything. Yelping dogs, screaming children, gunfire? ambulances, annoying hipsters who live in my building, trash trucks, alien abductions, etc.
I never used to want to be rich but living here makes me dream of being rich every day. Every day I have to spend living here in the Mission makes me want to move out of SF so I can afford to live somewhere I don't need a month's supply of Decon.
Anyone who loves the Mission is probably one of those people who needs a glass pipe b/c you crazy or smoking something.
P.S. for peeps like Cyn who live in the Mission and love it: I'm not talking about Dolores Park or eating at Range or Pizzeria Delfina! I'm not dissing Ritual or the Lexington or Puerto. I love all those things. I love shopping at the Candy Store. I love tons of the bars on Valencia Street for all their crazy drunken hipster whatevers. I love all of that! I am NOT a hater! No way!
The Mission I hate, is the Mission that is past the 20s and past Valencia Street. The Mission I hate isn't all trendy and pretty and young and hip. It's "run for your effin' lives!" and loud and scary and did I say scary? OK? OK.
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Oh, where do I even begin? I'm connected to this neighborhood in so many ways. I know it almost as well as I know the Sunset District (the *other* neighborhood I'm connected to in so many ways).
It all started when I was fresh outta SFSU, landed my first job outta college, and answered a Craiglist ad for a room at 22nd and Florida. Those were difficult times, yo. Crackheads/heroin addicts doing their "heating-up-some-rock-in-a-spoon" thing under my bedroom window. Being mistaken for a $20 hooker ($20?! Oh come on! I was coming back from a wedding for chrissakes...I totally looked classy!) while walking from my car to my home at two in the morning...(I *know*, not the wisest thing to do. Live and learn, okay?).
People give the Mission a hard time for being dirty, crackhead-infested and too "hipster". That's fine. It's all those things and a lot of other stuff they don't see because they make their weekly trek to "Cassanova" (or even worse, Skylark or Blondie's) and then think they know the place.
This neighborhood has a certain energy about it that you can't get anywhere else, and whether you like that energy or not, you gotta give it that.
Whatever. More room for me.
:D
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I have to second the beautiful Dr. Green's statement of .. "I am done with the Mission. Done."
After a splendid time at the Castro Theatre we decided to walk towards the Mission for dinner and a post-documentary film discussion. We cut through 18th Street from Castro towards Mission St. As always, when we are together, we zoned straight into discussions of politics, humanities, science and technology.
As we approached Valencia Street, my peripheral vision noticed a man walking towards us. He mumbles a phrase in Spanish then stares at my girlfriend's culo. Thereafter, he gently spanks it!
I froze for a few minutes and was unable to react. She immediately gave him the "finger salute", while in a delayed reaction, my reflexes re-awakened, and I screamed, "Ma vafanculo! Ranchero!"
I was shocked, and yes, he was indeed a ranchero type (ranchero is a socio-economic term that denotes a lower social class within Mexican society, similar to quatto in Roman dialect and baduy or bakya crowd in Tagalog).
The nerve of the Pendejo, and he was not even of the Antonio Banderas genre (although I am so done with the Latin look, there is always room for an Antonio Banderas in my books).
I would not have dreamt that slapping of the butt would occur in the Mission? of all places? After our brief adrenalin rush, I laughed out loud. I told her that when I was a teenager walking for the first time at Via Veneto I so was waiting for the famous pinching-of-the-butt tradition per the Italian myth, but no, that never happened. A whistle here and a "A-ooo bella" there. But Romans have not violated my butt!
The Mission? My friend's butt was violated in the Mission? At least if he was Scottish (her type) or Clive Owen, she would have gladly "turned the other cheek".
Ah, I do agree with Dr. Green, "I am (so) done with the Mission."
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for the thrid time this year, I tried having dinner, then drinks at a couple of the establishments in the Mission District. I have heard "yuppies" are starting to move in, so I thought I would give this district the benefit of my doubts. Well, I am still doubtful!
In general, ths Mission is a complete ghetto. The restaurants I ate at, the bars/clubs that I drank at and the stores that I shopped at - are all, for the most part, ghetto too. The smell of greasy food, dried up piss and smelly, hot feet was too much to bare as well.
Never going back to this district. No fun and incredibly over-rated.
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Mission rocks... why?
Because the Haight comprises of only 1 street
Because Nob Hill is too hard to climb
Because North Beach is too touristy... even on a Tuesday
Because Inner Richmond only comes alive 3/7 days a weeks
Because ditto for Inner Sunset
Because your car will rust in the Presidio
Because Excelsior isn't really San Francisco (lets be honest people)
Because Soma is, well, Soma
Because Russian Hill is too expensive
Because the Marina will eventually sink below sea level in the next "big one"...
Anyone feels at home in the Mission... Anyone. That's why it's the bestest.
*Disclaimer: no districts were harmed in the making of this review.
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Where's Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) from Death Wish when you need him?
Clean it up.
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Yes, outside of the travesty that is Papalote the Mission has authentic Mexican food. I'll give you that much.
But what's with all the hype about this neighborhood? Sure, the bars *used* to be cheap, and *used* to be hip, but now they're all scenesters and fixie-riding assholes staring daggers at you from under their I-just-spent-45-mintes-trying-to-make-my-hair-look -like-I-just-rolled-out-of-bed hairdoos while drinking their $4 pint of PBR.
Not to mention the super-high rates of crime, profusion of crackheads and professional hobos, and gang violence that this neighborhood draws. Don't let the cop cars that lazily drive by fool you, outside of the Tenderloin this is one of the un-safest places to be in the city.
The Mission is the new Marina.
The only difference here is that the douchebags have traded in their white pants and polo shirts for fixed-gear bicycles and skinny jeans.
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Just moved to the neighborhood, previously from SOMA/ South Beach. I love the fact that I can just WALK to cafes, restaurants, sushi bars etc. and of course the Mission Dolores park. Paking is not so much of a nightmare since I don't have to drive much anymore. The S permit does the trick.
The BIG downside are the bums that seem to hang out in solo or in packs of 2-3 who have this pissy smell about them that's a total horror show.
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I really don't understand the bitter freaks who give a one or two star review to the mission. (please leave and never return, thanks for stopping by) I will say that parts of the mission aren't safe at night. But other than that why do you bitch????? The mission has fantastic weather (at least by sf standards) and produce and meat markets,although i don't cook i think its so charming these types of busineses survive in the mission, most of these types of stores closed decades ago in other neighborhoods. For the most part the mission hasn't been ruined by chain stores and new condo projects and has changed very little over the years. The mission has almost no tourists and great mix people. Although i will say it can be bit uberhipsterfied.
Hi! My name is ____________ and I live in the mission. I get off by talking smack about every other hood in San Francisco and telling people how cool I am because I live here. If you hadn't noticed, right now it is trendy to appear "poor" so I drink PBR even though it tastes like beer flavored water, and we all know it. I wear ugly clothes that I pay a lot for at Macys and Bloomies, but would never say so...in fact I at all times wear one thing, one thing, from a thrift store so I am not totally lying when people ask me where I got my cute _______ I can tell them from ___________ (trendy thrift store of the week). Every morning when I leave my house for work or whatever I ignore the smell of piss, death, icky people because my zipcode allows me superiority to people who live in other parts of San Francisco, most of all the Marina.
***It should be noted...I, the reviewer, do not hate the mission...there are cute parts...just the intollerable snobs who treat me like shit for:
-not living there
-not gushing over it
-living in the Marina
Let it also be said, I probably pay less in rent than you do and I only eat organic food, but I don't sneak in McD's when I think no one is looking.
How about them apples?
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There are so many ways to see the Mission.
Yes you can look at it as a place that the residents 'pretend to be poor 'and hate all the people who live in the Marina..(who competes about neighborhoods? isn't that a gang thing?)
You can say that all the "cheap" bars aren't cheap anymore.
You can say that all the cheap shops have become expensive and trendy.
Its all true pretty much (except for the people are better than in the Marina part).
OR
You can say that there is still much tradition and many traditional places to shop, and eat. There is no other place in SF (Chinatown aside) that you can get meats & vegetables so cheap.
If you need a cheap bar in the Mission they are certainly there, and they are not in hiding, they are in plain view. They are just not the trendy places that all the trendy folks go.
I don't so much want to live in the Mission, but I love to shop there and eat there on occasion. I'm really happy its walking distance from where I live because I enjoy what it has to offer.
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