Moving to Oakland

[Billy Rygar]

Signing a lease today.

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[Mupepe]

Good luck. 

[The Fake Shemp]

I'll miss you, and be there to comfort your wife after your inevitable stabbing.

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

hipsters are starting to gentrify oakland now?

[Junpei the Tracer!]

Why don't you be a cool person and come live in New York.

[Human Snorenado]

Yet neither of them can get your strippers to shave their fucking armpits. 

[Eric P]

think carefully about which faction you want to join as you can only join one.

you'll get new quests, but you'll gain enemies from rival factions.

[Smooth Groove]

WTF why?  The whole East Bay is a POS that looks bad and smells even worse.  It took me a couple of days to get rid of Berkeley's disgusting stench. 

[The Fake Shemp]

Yeah, that commute would have sucked if you guys stayed put.

[The Fake Shemp]

It's a nice lake... during the day.

Oakland has some decent food. Their Chinatown is pretty awesome.

[Smooth Groove]

Seriously?  What good eats are there in Oakland?  

Also, why not just live in SF and take the bart to work? It's only about 30-40 mins going from Oaktown to SF.  

[The Fake Shemp]

Yeah, why aren't you rich, Cohen?

[Smooth Groove]

Cohen is rich though.  How else does he live the high society lifestyle?

[Smooth Groove]

And the other 10% is Chinatown, I presume?  You should seriously consider trading the animals for a nice apartment in Chinatown.

[Smooth Groove]

True, but why does that matter to you?  Are you one of those white people that think you're more Asian than a real Asian?

[Saint Cornelius]

And the restaurant scene in Oakland is way better than SF. 

Oh you have got to be kidding me

Also, I have a feeling you & your wife are going to hate living in Oakland. Might I suggest Mill Valley, or Palo Alto? Mountain View? Anyfuckingwhere other than Oakland?

[Saint Cornelius]

Ummm...we have lots of friends who live in Oakland, and I know lots of restaurant people, and do you want me to go on...

Okay so you know some people that sling 'burgers in Oakland and now you're a fucking restaurateur?

Does Zagat even cover Oakland?

(Also we've been living in San Jose for the past 3 years, so anything is improvement)

Oh so you know what a shithole Oakland is and you still want to move there? Godspeed.

[Saint Cornelius]

All I know is, of all the times I've been to S.F. I've never been like "hmmm, I'm hungry. Wonder what is cooking in Oakland"

Do you even know what I do for a living?

I have a feeling that you're a fucking restaurateur and the pwnage I'm about to get will be sublime.

[Himu]

Oakland isn't bad. Better than San Fran due to the ridiculous costs of living there now.

I kinda like San Jose, though. But I've seen more crime in SJ than Oakland.

[Saint Cornelius]

I'm a wine importer.  I know, well, hundreds of people in the Bay Area restaurant scene.  I even know folks down your way in SD doing some cool shit.

Nice! Well I guess you're impervious to my uneducated snark. But for realsies I didn't know Oakland had a burgeoning foodie scene going on. Just don't fuck with the BART cops, I suppose.

So who do you know in S.D.? This beer & sausage place called "The Regal Beagle" just opened up a block from my house. The owner just moved down from S.F. to open it. It would be a hilariously small world situation if you knew him!

[The Fake Shemp]

Cohen, when I visit you, can we have some wine?

[Himu]

Why do you always have to be a cock, Corny?

[Himu]

Oakland has some SHITTY areas, don't get me wrong and by and large it can't be considered a safe city, but the areas in SF we could afford are just as bad.

If I was moving there I'd move to Oakland too. I've got lots of family there and San Fran is just a bart train ride away.

[Smooth Groove]

I didn't even know Cohen quit making games.

[Saint Cornelius]

Why do you always have to be a cock, Corny?

Motherfucker I was actually concerned with Genghis' safety WHILST bringing my famous snark as well. And look what happened! Mr. Cohen actually educated me.

Why do you always have to be such a soggy vag, Himuro?

[Saint Cornelius]

Well a thread about being excited about moving to OAKLAND is pretty trollworthy

I really wasn't trying to troll you 

[Himu]

Why do you always have to be such a soggy vag, Himuro?

Because I'm too nice and you're always pickin' fights and you're better than that!


Anyways, every time I go to San Jose I see something bad happen. Last time, when we visited for my grandma's funeral, we went to SJ to visit my aunt. On the way to her house we saw police cops raiding a bar and a bunch of black dudes lined up against a fence, and yaddayaddayaddayadda. I like Oakland more than SJ anyhow.

[Himu]

San Jose reminds me of San Antonio. Every time I visit something happens to make me not want to visit again.

San Antonio:

1. visited Mexican food place, they sold gummi worms! Stuff gave me the worst diarrhea of my life. Lesson learned: never buy from Mexicans.
2. waited over an hour for our food while other people who got their later got their food, when the bill came they tried to con us 40 dollars past what the total should have been. Lesson learned: don't trust mexican waiters.

too many times to count

[Smooth Groove]

Oaktown is worse.  Look at all the dead businesses in downtown.  No one has bother to re-lease those spots for more than a decade.

[Smooth Groove]

Hey Cohen, can I ask you a favor?

preemptively reported to Homeland Security

[brawndolicious]

Oakland is a huge city, it's always annoying when none Bay Area people assume that most of it is ghetto.

[Saint Cornelius]

Oakland is a huge city, it's always annoying when none Bay Area people assume that most of it is ghetto.

By the way: Genghis, have you checked your neighborhood with this yet?

[Saint Cornelius]

Just don't get vic'd.

[Eric P]

Yes.  It's fairly safe.  No murders at all, and only one robbery in the past 90 days and one aggravated assault.  It's almost exactly like my neighborhood here.

East Coast won that rap beef i see

[OptimoPeach]

Oakland is a huge city, it's always annoying when none Bay Area people assume that most of it is ghetto.

This.  Go through Rockridge sometime and tell me Oakland is a ghetto.

Yeah my dad's best friend moved to Oakland a while back and when I visited his house it was pretty nice. He was SUPER WHITE and he loved the place from what I gathered, so you'll be fine.

And hey, you moved just in time for the Raiders to stop sucking

[CrystalGemini]

Oakland has some SHITTY areas, don't get me wrong and by and large it can't be considered a safe city, but the areas in SF we could afford are just as bad.

This.  There are some really NICE neighborhoods in Oakland too.  That being said you really just have to know how to carry yourself even if you do go into the bad spots.  And why would you go to through areas that aren't as safe?  Because as Cohen has said there are some great food to be found in Oakland and sometimes you have to go through bad neighborhoods to get to them.  It's really not that big of a deal!   

Oakland is a huge city, it's always annoying when none Bay Area people assume that most of it is ghetto.

Seriously.

Oakland has some SHITTY areas, don't get me wrong and by and large it can't be considered a safe city, but the areas in SF we could afford are just as bad.

If I was moving there I'd move to Oakland too. I've got lots of family there and San Fran is just a bart train ride away.

You're such a fucking tourist, Himuro.   

[etiolate]

Oakland is a man made lake surrounded by man made ugly.

[CrystalGemini]

You're a tourist too, Mr. Tent City.

[etiolate]

You're a tourist too, Mr. Tent City.

"It's fine as long as you don't cross the street."

[CrystalGemini]

You're a tourist too, Mr. Tent City.

"It's fine as long as you don't cross the street."

It's exactly as I said.  As long as you don't cross the street.   

[lennedsay]

Oaktown is worse.  Look at all the dead businesses in downtown.  No one has bother to re-lease those spots for more than a decade.

So it's basically St Louis.

[Toddler]

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[The Fake Shemp]

Those are Cohen's neighbors.

[Flannel Boy]

 

[Himu]

You're such a fucking tourist, Himuro.   

I'm not from California! But I visit a lot for family.

[CrystalGemini]

No, there's actually a really distinct separation between the nice and bad neighborhoods.  Like I said earlier about not crossing the street.  If you look down Broadway you can literally see the black (east) and the white (west) sides.

West of Broadway (City Center)

[Toddler]

If you look down Broadway you can literally see the black (east) and the white (west) sides.

That's soooo racist

[Phoenix Dark]

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I can imagine Cohen leaning against a van, sipping a glass of wine watching the fight.

[tiesto]

Genghis ain't a weeaboo, doc. You thinking about tiesto.

Well, when you're half Polish, you have to pretend you're something else I guess

[Flannel Boy]

Genghis ain't a weeaboo, doc. You thinking about tiesto.

Well, when you're half Polish, you have to pretend you're something else I guess

That's cold.  :'(

[Himu]

If you look down Broadway you can literally see the black (east) and the white (west) sides.

That's soooo racist

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racist, or true?

[CrystalGemini]

Oakland is a man made lake surrounded by man made ugly.

Lake Merritt isn't a man made lake.  Or even a lake for that matter.

That's my bad.  I always thought it was one of Chabot's projects.  Should have realized it wasn't as it's not named after him.   

[Toddler]

If you look down Broadway you can literally see the black (east) and the white (west) sides.

That's soooo racist

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racist, or true?

Take your pick, you'll never catch this honky in Oak-town....

[pilonv1]

I'm jealous, I want to go to Golden State games

[tiesto]

Genghis ain't a weeaboo, doc. You thinking about tiesto.

Well, when you're half Polish, you have to pretend you're something else I guess

That's cold.  :'(

I'm damn proud of my heritage, just wanted to bust Borys' balls a bit 

[etiolate]

So how about that shoot out on the freeway that shutdown 580? Totally not ghetto! Why carry one gun when you can fill an entire backseat with them?

LET'S GO OAKLAND

GLOC GLOC GLOC

[etiolate]

He realized he belonged in Oakland.

[CrystalGemini]

But today's highway-closure-due-to-a-crazy-gunman only proves our point furthermore that it's not that bad.  Yeah we were in the car for an hour (normally a 15 minute drive) and had to detour through 13 to get there but we were able to make it to Fenton's in one piece.  AND BEST OF ALL, it just so happens to be their 116th Birthday Celebration today so we got free ice cream and bbq kabobs outside and $1.16 "Black & Tan" ice cream sundaes.

PICS!








Food inside:




The special $1.16 "Black & Tan":

[Brehvolution]

[Madrun Badrun]

mojo ruined the thread. 

but the above pics