BobbyLeeSwagger

I had my first feel old moment went a cashier in her late 20s gave me a 10 dollar bill that was barely holding together and it was the old style. I starred at it and said wow I haven't seen this since I was a kid- she looked at it and said she'd never seen that before. We're both in the "same" generation haha. And I bet she hadn't played Oregon trail, the best game ever after flight Sim 95.

TransWorld

Sim 95… did they have electric lights way back then?

paulcg77

FS95 was the game largely responsible for me becoming a pilot. I remember the sim always default opened at Meigs Field in a 172 that was auto-configured for the ILS 28R at ORD, so all you had to do was fly straight out of 36 at Meigs and then take a left around Montrose Beach and you were set up for a landing at O'Hare. Too cool.

BobbyLeeSwagger

Ha! I know I'm not "old" to all you Gen X and boomers, but I am to Z, so who knows! The older i get the more i realize its all relative until you die!

Reminds me of an interview with Sam Butera (sax player from Louis Prima and the witnesses) on the Letterman show where David asks him if he is happy about David Lee Roth covering his old hit "Just a Gigilo" to which he responds that he's glad the "kids" are getting into the old music. To Sam, I guess the kids who listened to that cover in 1988 were the boomers or maybe x, probably boomers.

It's funny to hear that same old generational talk us millennials have always heard as we covered and reused 1960s/70s music- our parents (or at least mine) reminding me how that new hit song I was listening to was ripped off from his generation lol. Anyway, Sam was glad the 'kids' had discovered the real music he used to play, which was of course, swing!

Btw, song ends with this great lyric-

"There will be a day when youth will pass away, [scat], what will they say about me?

When the end comes I know they'll say 'just a gigilo', life goes on without me"

truer words never spoken lol, apologies for the thread drift....

TransWorld

Very nice and worthwhile thread drift, BLS.

paulcg77

Following up on some previous comments -
San Francisco is #1 in "Cities where average one-bedroom rents are decreasing" with a 45% decrease in rental prices, the highest of any of the surveyed cities in this article:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/08/us-c...de-report.html

As far as why, there's a lot of reasons including the urban flight to the suburbs during the pandemic as more people move out of apartments and want houses with more space, the work at home trend with people moving to more affordable cities/areas, but probably most profoundly for the Bay Area, the tech move to Texas and elsewhere. This article about says it all: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/u...able-city.html

Quote: "These days, construction sites and cranes feel more like permanent fixtures across the neighborhood, where longtime residents have watched with growing anxiety as chic coffee shops, yoga studios and pricey bars have inched closer and closer... the Austin metropolitan area is on track to become by year’s end the least affordable major metro region for homebuyers outside of California."

If you're looking to have a crash pad or live full time in the Bay Area, this is the best time since the tech crash 20 years ago. $1600ish for a studio in downtown SF has been unheard of for the last few decades and you can get that right now.

Gilligan13

Martinez, Benicia, Vacaville, Dixon.

Dave Fitzgerald

All subject to I-80 traffic and the bay bridge.....

worstpilotever

i don’t know how people deal with the bay bridge….it can be an hour or 3 hours depending on time of day. GGB is much easier….I guess most of the rich people in Marin don’t work.

Galaxy5

Make the drive knowing what you’re getting into so you’re mentally prepared. My record is 4:30 to Sacramento.

And listen to Symphony Hall on SiriusXM to keep your blood pressure down. Was doing a lot of Lithium then realized I was getting home or to work in a rage.