Here's the building, I think. No plane present, so either they installed it since then, or one did fall out of the sky with its hamster pilot.

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I miss Berkeley so much. What a great place to live.

(near Totland, on top of buried Strawberry creek, halfway between N. Berkeley BART and Downtown Berkeley BART.)

Seriously though, most FARKers should just stay away from Berkeley, because I can tell you wouldn't enjoy it, and you don't actually deserve it. Maybe some place nearby through the Caldicott Tunnel.

RoyBatty: Seriously though, most FARKers should just stay away from Berkeley, because I can tell you wouldn't enjoy it, and you don't actually deserve it. Maybe some place nearby through the Caldicott Tunnel.

When hamsters fly out of my butt.

Mikey1969: RoyBatty: Seriously though, most FARKers should just stay away from Berkeley, because I can tell you wouldn't enjoy it, and you don't actually deserve it. Maybe some place nearby through the Caldicott Tunnel.

I want to go there... One of our newest acquisitions is a printing company in Berkeley and I'm hoping next time we need to do network configuration or equipment installs, I'll get to go.

I really loved it. I haven't been there in 10 years, sigh, and I suspect downtown isn't much due because it always gets hit during the recessions, but the whole area is so dynamic, the campus is absolutely beautiful, and they have this terrific mixture of small manufacturing businesses, small shopping districts and interesting older homes. There's 924 Gilman and other famous music scenes.

The eating is fantastic due to the college and all the diverse foods and tastes that brings in. The views from the hills of the Bay and the Bridge and SF are amazing. There's Lawrence Hall of Science for the local "exploratorium". There's BART to take you into SF in 20 minutes. It's got a Sake factory and a dozen microbrews.

It's got a marina (used by Scott Petersen), and it's got Tilden Park for close by hiking, and it's just fantastically situated in the area to be close to anything you could want to do.

And all over Berkeley are these really cool little 2-4 block shopping areas, usually with a very nice coffee house, and a small local grocery and a restaurant or three, mixed right in with homes.

Being from LA that sort of non-planned commercial/residential mix was brand new to me, and really awesome. There were many days I would not get in my car, I could walk to half a dozen local grocers and butchers, or walk downhill to get on the N. Berkeley BART and go into SF, returning by the downtown Berkeley BART and walking downhill to my place.

Oh well, can't go back.

/stupid prisons.

RoyBatty: Here's the building, I think. No plane present, so either they installed it since then, or one did fall out of the sky with its hamster pilot.

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Yeah, just look at all the artsy-craft crap in his yard ('round on the right).

Go Bears!

/okay, I'm done.

Hey, it could happen.

....but that is another story.

/obscure

Berkeley Assistant Fire Chief Donna McCracken

Wife of Phil?

Mikey1969: RoyBatty: I really loved it. I haven't been there in 10 years, sigh, and I suspect downtown isn't much due because it always gets hit during the recessions, but the whole area is so dynamic, the campus is absolutely beautiful, and they have this terrific mixture of small manufacturing businesses, small shopping districts and interesting older homes. There's 924 Gilman and other famous music scenes.

The eating is fantastic due to the college and all the diverse foods and tastes that brings in. The views from the hills of the Bay and the Bridge and SF are amazing. There's Lawrence Hall of Science for the local "exploratorium". There's BART to take you into SF in 20 minutes. It's got a Sake factory and a dozen microbrews.

It's got a marina (used by Scott Petersen), and it's got Tilden Park for close by hiking, and it's just fantastically situated in the area to be close to anything you could want to do.

And all over Berkeley are these really cool little 2-4 block shopping areas, usually with a very nice coffee house, and a small local grocery and a restaurant or three, mixed right in with homes.

Being from LA that sort of non-planned commercial/residential mix was brand new to me, and really awesome. There were many days I would not get in my car, I could walk to half a dozen local grocers and butchers, or walk downhill to get on the N. Berkeley BART and go into SF, returning by the downtown Berkeley BART and walking downhill to my place.

Oh well, can't go back.

/stupid prisons.



Yeah, I kinda got the impression that it was this cool mix of metropolitan area/small city. Got a smaller city(As opposed to somewhere like LA or Phoenix) feel, yet still having many of the amenities of a large city... Kind of a perfect mix for someone like me who gets a little stabby when he's in a really big place for too long.

I think it's a great place to go to school, and a great place to raise kids, or even to grow old and retire.

I am not sure it's the best place for young, unmarried/no kids, but slightly too old for the campus scene. That would be SF.

Wonder if this guy's been seen there:

Bill_Wick's_Friend: ....but that is another story.

/obscure


/nope