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Loving It Or Leaving It: Contemplating the Soul of a Changing San Francisco

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KQED

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2726 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Is San Francisco over? Its a question that has dominated conversations in the city for years, maybe even decades. Has its maverick soul been lost to the tech industry, outrageous rents and the sadness of the suffering in the streets? For a city proud of its reputation as the glittering, devil-may-care zone of misrule at the end of the continent, the question of how its changed touches on San Franciscans deepest sense of who they are, who they were, and who they want to be, writer Gary Kamiya says in the introduction to a new essay collection, The End of The Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco. Well talk with some of the books contributors and we want to hear from you: Why do you stay? Why have you left? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia.

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From KQED.

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From KQED.

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Outside New York, no American city's residents debate their decision to live within the city limits more than those in San

1:18.8

Francisco's 49 square miles. Despite its off-discussed problems, the city is still a place

1:23.9

where a lot of people want to live. But unless you got here just last year,

1:28.1

the San Francisco you knew is probably no longer. In a new book, The End of the Golden Gate,

1:32.8

writers on loving and sometimes leaving San Francisco, 25 writers explore their complex relationship

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with this place. You marry one person, but you stay married to another. A city becomes a different

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city, whether you stay or leave, writes contributor Daniel Handler. What does San Francisco be coming, and do stay married to another. A city becomes a different city, whether you stay or leave,

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writes contributor Daniel Handler. What does San Francisco be coming and do you plan to stay? That's next on

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Forum after this news.

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Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. For a city proud of its reputation as the glittering devil may care

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zone of misrule at the end of the continent, the question of how San Francisco has changed

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touches on local people's deepest sense of who they are, who they were, and who they want to be,

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