Versus #1 Northside vs. Southside
It seems like a comparison article contrasting the two neighborhoods where most Berkeley students live would be like a million times more appropriate later in the year when students are trying to figure out where to live next year.
Some comments (largely uninformed, as I only go over there like 2 or 3 times a year):
1) Who would want to live in Northside anyway? The article makes it seem so unfun.
2) There’s a Northside Asian Ghetto? Since when? Where is it? Are there dollar noodles there too?
3) People who move in next door or down the street from a fraternity and then complain about how loud it is are lame. The fraternity was there first. If people having fun past your bedtime bothers you, don’t live next to a fraternity.
4) From the school of finding humor by taking things literally: ” But today, the reason Trevor Nguyen loses sleep is because of impending midterms.” Um, Trevor, it’s the very first day of school. Just chill out for a couple of more weeks, then you can start freaking out.
5) Maybe next year the SQUELCH! Party Civil War reenactment will have to be Northside against Southside instead of NorCal versus SoCal. I’m sure that wouldn’t be a merciless beatdown…
Euclid Avenue is great until every single restaurant closes at like 7 in the friggin’ evening.
Comment by RWB — August 29, 2005 @ 2:44 pm
“4) From the school of finding humor by taking things literally: ” But today, the reason Trevor Nguyen loses sleep is because of impending midterms.” Um, Trevor, it’s the very first day of school. Just chill out for a couple of more weeks, then you can start freaking out.”
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Comment by smashT — August 29, 2005 @ 2:50 pm
Haha, the Northside Asian ghetto is like Cupertino compared to the Asian ghetto on southside. ironically, it’s the first Asian ghetto I ever ate at. Oh wait, sorry, it’s the “Hearst Food ourt” and “Durant Food Court.” Shame!
Comment by DTI — August 29, 2005 @ 3:05 pm
Northside is much better for long walks (in case anyone other than me is interested in that kind of thing). My “long walks” on the Southside always turned into “desperate sprints” when shady dudes rode up on me.
Comment by anon — August 29, 2005 @ 8:50 pm
the article is lame. northside is awesome. i lived in the co-ops so there was no shortage of people up at all hours and plenty of social events. it wasn’t at too quiet inside my house all the time, but that’s the way I liked it. it was also better located for my classes (physics, math). northside is better for the scenic walk and good for wandering over to the fire trail. if you want to visit southside, it’s not too far away. southside starts to annoy me when it’s forced on me…
Comment by nef — August 29, 2005 @ 11:53 pm
I’ve only been attacked once on a bike in Oakland, and I just sped up. My long running route that I do occasionally is to Fruitvale BART, and no one has done more than heckle, which isn’t to say that my friends haven’t seen their neighbors treat houses like big gumball machines. But crime maps indicate that this can occur in the hills as well.
End of dwight is great for hiking.
Comment by grimes — August 30, 2005 @ 8:37 am
Grimes,
Sounds like a good run, Grimes. Are you on the team? When I was in school I went once to Bayfair station one way on a Sunday morning, and took Bart back. I did the same to Richmond station a couple of times. God, I was stupid. I have a better sense of those neighborhoods now. I know the area from Berkeley to Fruitvale like the back of my hand, too. It’s a fine run.
When you’re young, Southside is great. In the year or two after I graduated some girl got whacked by some punk on Dwight, close to Telegraph. That’s about when I started to think the whole scene was really stupid. Too many posers and hangers on.
Comment by old guy — August 30, 2005 @ 4:39 pm
It was a pretty pointless article. The Daily Cal should be producing something of value.
Comment by anon — August 31, 2005 @ 12:34 am
Excuse me, fraternities don’t have the right to be noisy just because they were there first. That doesn’t make sense.
Comment by Jim Fung — September 3, 2005 @ 8:11 pm
Southside is fine as long as you carry a gun
Comment by Anonymous — September 3, 2005 @ 9:28 pm
The lamest thing of all: thinking that because you’re in a fraternity you have the right to be a jerk and disturb your neighbors at all hours of the night.
Comment by Vermillion — September 4, 2005 @ 11:33 am
“The lamest thing of all: thinking that because you’re in a fraternity you have the right to be a jerk and disturb your neighbors at all hours of the night.”
I suppose this works for coops too.
Comment by Anonymous — September 4, 2005 @ 12:24 pm
what a bunch of fags. dont live near a frat if youre not ready to invest in a pair of ear plugs. thats like moving to connecticut and complaining about the snow.
Comment by Anonymous — September 4, 2005 @ 1:33 pm
Or moving to Marin and complaining about all the liberals
Comment by Anonymous — September 4, 2005 @ 3:13 pm