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madokie

(51,076 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 06:00 AM Jun 2014

An inordinate fear of no water | By Mark Morford

It seems simple enough, even a little romantic, a little American-dreamy: I’m looking to buy some property.

Northward. Woodsy. Modernrusticsexycool. Just the sweetest and most perfect getaway property ever, is all, something about an hour or two from San Francisco, up in the more lushly arboreal regions of Sonoma or Napa counties, remote enough to quell the City’s roar but not so remote to be inhaling all the off-gasses from regional meth labs or suffering any gunfire from Mendocino’s cranky pot kingpins.

Is it too much to ask? A modest home-slash-retreat space on a few acres that can maybe house a handful of yoga students and/or writers for a long weekend, accessible to civilization but not so snobbish that you can’t run around naked and covered in chocolate and bourbon and dreams, and all of it on columnist/yoga teacher’s budget?

It might be. Obvious Problem No. 1: I don’t work for Google, or Oracle, or FaceTwitChat, and therefore am not up to my flaccid fleece hoodie in mountains of tech-bro cash that I can throw around like Monopoly money; I don’t even have an extra $2 million to buy a closet-sized condo in the Mission. It makes things a little rough.

http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/06/24/an-inordinate-fear-of-no-water/

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handmade34

(22,755 posts)
1. something to think about....
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 06:29 AM
Jun 2014

I am very safe on my little waterlogged property in Vermont, but out traveling, I know all too well the reality of other people's world

Puglover

(16,380 posts)
3. Indeed.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 09:07 AM
Jun 2014

I have a few friends that retired to Las Vegas and Phoenix. And I wonder WTH are you thinking? What are those cities going to be like in 15 years.

It's very frightening.

Romulox

(25,960 posts)
5. Poor guy (and no ways part of the problem!) I hope he gets his second home in San Franscisco
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 10:01 AM
Jun 2014

for his "long weekend...naked and covered in chocolate and bourbon..."

Truly, the promise of the American Dream lies unfulfilled until this man gets his second home! And no, he doesn't want to hear about all this "drought" business.

Romulox

(25,960 posts)
7. I did. The author's over-consumption is also part of the problem
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 12:07 PM
Jun 2014

He begins his story with a whine that he can't afford a secluded place in the country as a *second* home as a segue to talk about water. Then he spends the remainder of the column telling us how it is all somebody else's fault.

It's more than a little bit of a tone deaf way to talk about the issue \.

 

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)
8. he doesn't own his first home and he is trying to create a retreat space
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 02:18 PM
Jun 2014

that a lot of actor/theater people want to do. secondly, this is a personal story told to highlight a very big problem in California (and other places), the de-regulation of agribusiness and the over-consumption of meat.

it's actually a real great piece, unless you make this weird assumption that morford is a super-wealthy person looking to throw their money around. which as it were, is a strange assumption

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
9. He's not over-consuming. Dreaming isn't doing. The piece is about global warming
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 02:42 PM
Jun 2014

and the California drought. His beginning is just a lead-in to the real topic.

 

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)
10. i actually thought it was a brilliant way to talk about the issues
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 03:13 PM
Jun 2014

while making it a personal story.

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