Notices by Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)

At some point in middle age, you transition: your glasses, or your gender, or both.

time to delete fidelity from my phone and maybe not look for.. forever

@orloff singapore has public housing, we still have $1M public housing apts

sf is a whole other thing, it's just dysfunctional and nimbys generally in the bay area

but lots of cities around the world do have $1M median homes (sydney, toronto, etc) anywhere that has 'buy a home that will be your primary investment / equity vehicle'

@mayintoronto when I visited as a teenager on a school trip and was walking around minding my own business, old people there also told the cops to ‘keep an eye on those kids’.

seems great for folks from there tho

@mayintoronto Vienna is nice but I somehow don’t really consider it a major global city hehe

Essentially I’m never ‘giving up my friends and family and access to food I like to own a shitty home in a shitty suburb’

Not saying it’s not possible, but you can’t compare one of the most expensive places in the world to.. the south.

My theory is that almost every major global city has almost the same housing price issues (except Tokyo, but it’s not easy to move there and live there). My housing options are the same in SF and Singapore.

It would also take me a lot to move outside one of these cities. Not because I don’t think life is worth living outside, but because I value some things more than home ownership.

Saw someone from the south say that the reason Bay Area people ‘can’t live on 100K’ is they have luxuries like nice houses and cars instead of ‘a starter home in the suburbs’ and a ‘mid range car like a Toyota’ and lady I don’t think you know what you are talking about

Try 3x-ing that to get any of those things and childcare

Local credit union (SF Fire CU) took out an ad on the bus that said, ‘we use AI (Actual Individuals)’

#SanFrancisco #ai

@adrianco the city bus does but the Amtrak bus can be pretty fast

@pewnack we are not cultured enough

@siddhesh_p on yeah, Toronto and LA and New York feel very familiar to me in that regard

I’ve been going to get my clothes mended and altered by a few nice old Toishanese aunties. I barely understand them, but they laugh at how many holes I have in my clothes and fix them up nicely for me.

i'm pretty certain i've eaten at more than 8000 chinese restaurants. time to start documenting them all

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-i-learned-eating-at-8-000-chinese-restaurants

#Food #ChineseFood

@timrichards @sister_ratched @rowangrigg @nihilistnomya yay!

I like to go to my fave Chinatown restaurants during work hours and get little snacks for the Vietnamese ladies who work in the restaurants around me. They always want to try new things but the Chinatown places are closed when they are done with work.

Today:

- chive dumplings
- mung bean durian cakes
- homemade soy milk

I also bought and gave out a lot of snacks from a Chinese bakery

At this point any SF ‘ethnic’ restaurant that dares to put out dishes with extreme flavor, I will go there.

I’m tired of paying gobs of money that feel like it was made for a person who has never tasted flavor before

Sometimes I see ‘ethnic restaurants’ in San Francisco super tone down and white wash their food for a hypothetical median person here. They always feel they have to.

There was this Nepali restaurant which finally closed down that was always trying to do like ‘tandoori salmon’ or super generic momo, and it probably just made me never want to go there, ever. It’s not that the food doesn’t feel ‘real’ or ‘authentic’ it is just unsure who they are doing this for.

Makes me sad, so much wasted potential. That’s also why I tend to go to East and South Bay for food coz it’s clear they’re making immigrant food for immigrants, and you can taste the difference. It’s night and day.

I like that I have a place in my neighborhood where I can buy Polaroid film and film developer chemicals in person

#BelieveInFilm #Photography