Do they charge extra for that?
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San Francisco is not Oakland. San Francisco and Oakland are two separate cities.
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And yet, nobody caresâŚ
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Itâs like claiming New Jersey is a real state. They insist it is, but everyone knows it isnât, really.
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Exactly! I just tell people I live in New York and they all nod and say âOh, great.â Nobody cares.
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When I go to other countries and they ask where I live, I say âSan Franciscoâ because everyone knows where that is. In the United States, I say âOakland,â and no one seems confused.
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Try being English over here.
Might as well just say London and be done with it. If they donât think youâre Australian youâll end up just explaining how far you lived from London anyway.
(and then you discover the guy youâre talking to knows your crappy provincial little hometown well, natch)
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Exactly that. The Economic function of property has been reassigned, from sheltering humans, i.e. the labour force to security investment for a rainy day in a highly volatile financial system. Signs of a messed up financial system, much of the growth in both the Bay area and the English South East, i.e. London comes from providing financial safe havens to the citizenry of a wide range of highly dodgy states.
It is also a very effective financial vehicle to silently moving the resources and wealth of formal Communist regimes to the gloriously victorious west. I say Russia, Ukraine etc. and ChinaâŚ
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Those goodhearted citizens of Sealabia know better than to consort with those Pod 6 marine troglodytes
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Thatâs a bit like singling Flint, Michigan out for âwhingeingâ about the water supply.
Are they the only community in the country that has problems with their water? No. Are their problems sufficiently bad that they have more reason to raise concern than just about anyone else? Indeed they do.
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Same over here. People have heard of Detroit, not so much Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti. Added bonus: after they hear Detroit, they donât fuq with 'ya. 
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Oakland too. 
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The rub being that they had to have heard of it prior. Detroit has an international reputation (dating back to the 1960âs which doesnât reflect reality in 2016) that Oakland doesnât quite.
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As an American I was like that till my son got me into Premier League football. He is a United fan (I know), and when I was first figuring out the rivalries I mentioned that both the Manchester teams seem to take a special pleasure in beating Liverpool, he said, of course its like 30 miles on the M62 from Manchester to Liverpool.
He has never set foot in the UK. I also now know Swansea is in Wales. The more you know.
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Itâs Santa Cruz that has the vampire problem.
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The term is tenant. And really? REALLY?
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the politician from Hesse?
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The Premier League this season has certainly raised the profile of my aforementioned home townâŚ
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A temporary tent, or a permanent tent? Did it have a real bed in it, or am inflatable bed or cot?
