I have absolutely no interest in moving to San Francisco, and I only happened to glance at this article because it was so highly voted on Hacker News.
Boy am I glad I did. I still don't care about living in San Francisco, but I am in awe of your amazing blog-writing skills. This is not a book or newspaper article: it falls solidly within the typical boundaries of a blog article, talking about own experiences and opinions on a matter of interest to him and his neighbors. But so WELL written! The amount of detail, the little touches like pictures that reflect, illustrate, and even extend each point being made... I could only aspire to someday be able to write like this. I've bookmarked it under "examples of great journalism" as an exemplar of the "blog post" writing style.
Thank you for writing this and spending the time (it must have taken a good deal of time) to make the presentation so polished.
I'm sure they were there, but I managed not to be distracted by them, perhaps because the breadth and depth of the content caused me to skim somewhat (read quickly).
Boy am I glad I did. I still don't care about living in San Francisco, but I am in awe of your amazing blog-writing skills. This is not a book or newspaper article: it falls solidly within the typical boundaries of a blog article, talking about own experiences and opinions on a matter of interest to him and his neighbors. But so WELL written! The amount of detail, the little touches like pictures that reflect, illustrate, and even extend each point being made... I could only aspire to someday be able to write like this. I've bookmarked it under "examples of great journalism" as an exemplar of the "blog post" writing style.
Thank you for writing this and spending the time (it must have taken a good deal of time) to make the presentation so polished.