Yes Bill, everyone pines for the days when the Embarcadero was still an ugly monstrosity in the middle of the city and the city was coping with the AIDS epidemic. Definitely high times for everyone. What a fucking idiot.
https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/bill-simmons-san-francisco-shambles-axe-murderer-18432048.php“This was the best San Francisco time,” Simmons said, adding that he had friends who moved out there at the time. “... It was pre-Silicon Valley. There was still a coolness to it. A lot of young people were moving there or to Portland or places like that. You could still live there for cheap. You could get either a floor of a house or you could rent an apartment, but you could live three to four [people] to a place, and it was realistic.”