Comments on: SanFrooklyn

By: Kevin Bracken

Kevin Bracken — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:02:19 +0000

It is no coincidence that Brooklyn and the Bay Area are the top two hometowns of “burners” – people who attend the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada.

However, I believe there must be a fairly significant group alternatively hitting Toronto and New York – like me.

After all, those are the two epicentres of our Newmindspace events – the NYC pillow fight & Toronto pillow fight, subway parties, massive Capture the Flag games etc.

By: John West

John West — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:17:02 +0000

‘The East Coast people have ruined Berkeley’

Yeah, San Fran too. Called the Manhattanization of San Francisco, which once was a working man’s town, city of homecomings, mysterious, romantic. There’s a gradient of risk-aversion that runs across America to the Pacific, the most timid clinging to the coast where grandpa staggered off the banana boat from Bialystok a century ago. But at last a few hardy pioneers have got them to cross the Appalachians, and they’re busy as beavers turning the West into a petting zoo, which is what they’re comfortable with.

By: Michael Wells

Michael Wells — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:41:32 +0000

As long ago as at least the late ’60’s people noticed the Bay Area/New York shuttle, and an equivalent Portland/Boston movement. Something about equivalent cultural styles. New Yorkers who come to Portland either love it for its slower pace, or leave in frustration within 6 months because of the lack of confrontation (“Nobody tells you what they mean!”)

By: Wil

Wil — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:02:28 +0000

The East Coast people have ruined Berkeley. Prices are higher, the hippies are relocating to the North Cast and Seattle, and the mellow atmosphere has changed ..Don’t get me wrong, I have many, many easterners as very close lifelong friends. But I really think that even within the creative class there are significant regional differences.

The NYT article is accurate, many people shuttle back and forth between New York and the Bay Area, as well as between the Bay Area and France.

By: xian

xian — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:06:31 +0000

I call the Brooklyn/Oakland nexus “Brokeland”