Lizzie, the Sunnyside district in San Francisco is not a very good one, as I recall. Strangely, some of the worst districts here have the very best weather; the Mission is very warm and sunny, for example. Hearst Street is not a good one, but I cannot recall exactly what it is like. I only like to hang out is very, very safe neighborhoods, so I don't drive around much in those areas. Honestly this has not been a very practical strategy for me; I cannot afford property in any neighborhood I could stand to live in, so I'm still renting.
Interestingly, the Bayview, which used to be mostly a black neighborhood, is now almost the only place where first time buyers can afford a house, and a lot more white and Asian people are moving in.
However, they have a problem there with raw sewage flooding the streets in bad weather. People will endure almost anything here to own their own house!
I am not sure what I think about Murphy Brown. I am not conservative, but understood and sort of agreed with Dan Quayle's point that when single motherhood becomes socially acceptable it is not really very good for the larger society. The single most common factor for children who grow up distrubed, don't get good educations, live in poverty, develop alcohol or drug problems, become criminals, etc. (all the social pathologies) is not having a father in the home. While Murphy Brown could certainly afford to take care of a child on her own, most single mothers cannot, and yet the more socially acceptable it becomes the more children grow up in single parent families.
Having a baby is very hard. I never realized how much harder it would be without a father in the home until I had one myself. Children need two parents for stability, and because they learn very vital things about taking risks and surviving in the larger world from fathers that are different from the nurturing good mothers give. Children need male and female role models so much that after thinking about it I agree with Bill Clinton, who also made the point that Dan Quayle was right about this. |
