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Originally Posted by eschaton
Oakland?
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Unlikely.
It takes a special mix of wealth and tolerance to create the scene on some of San Francisco's streets. Oakland doesn't really have either. Alameda County doesn't offer the level of benefits, cash and otherwise, that San Francisco does nor does the average inhabitant have the "spare change" to hand out that many San Franciscans do. And the Oakland street scene can be a tough one, not all that welcoming to mostly white addicts and mentally ill persons.
Berkeley, which already has some of this problem, makes a lot more sense: Wealthier, whiter, more self-consciously liberal.
But for now Oakland's gangs see SF's Tenderloin as a marketing territory, convenient to commute to by BART. They don't want its residents or its issues moving to where they live.