[fabiani12333]

Originally Posted by inaka

Man, the not-so thinly veiled racist comments in this thread about Oakland are sadly not surprising.

When people take pot shots at Oakland, it's usually by people who are ignorant, have never lived there, and strangely find happiness propogating racist tropes. (There are crime stories across the bay in San Francisco that are equality troubling....or New York...or Chicago...or Los Angeles, etc. but would you mention those if the Giants were going to move, or when the Yankees were shopping sites for a new stadium?)

People who know Oakland know that there are really bad rough parts, and absolutely beautiful parts of Oakland. That's why some parts of Oakland have home prices that dwarf most of the nation, and some parts that are extremely dangerous....like most big cities.

Saying stuff like "ghetto Oakland" is some Karen level Nextdoor nonsense. Please do better.

You might be surprised to find out what my racial makeup is. I posted articles about East, West and downtown Oakland -- those are the parts of Oakland that are dealing with lawlessness. I know about the Oakland hills and Piedmont -- a wealthy premoninantly white community landlocked by the Oakland Hills.

Home prices have gone up throughout Oakland:

May 2021
Over that decade, the real-estate firm Zillow estimates that Oakland’s median home value ballooned from under $380,000 in 2011 to over $890,000 — a trend that the coronavirus pandemic accelerated. Now his neighborhood is the hottest real estate market in the nine-county Bay Area region, the epicenter of a pandemic-era housing price boom in the East Bay.

Since the start of the pandemic, Reservoir Hill’s median home value has shot up by nearly 25%, from over $643,000 to about $800,000, per Zillow’s estimates. The neighborhood, which sits just south of the MacArthur Freeway and west of Fruitvale Avenue, is one of 14 in Oakland where estimated home prices increased by 15% or more in a single year. Most of these neighborhoods are in the eastern flatlands, from Reservoir Hill to Durant Manor.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/realesta...l-16155429.php