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The worst thing about moving from Oakland to the 'burbs was that I went from a neighborhood with 80 restaurants within walking distance, only two of them chains (Round Table Pizza, KFC) to a neighborhood with 30 restaurants, none within walking distance and almoster every one of them a chain.
Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) owns two restaurants in the area and he recently blogged about how the recent opening of Cheesecake Factory (extremely mediocre food though occasionally I'll walk in for a piece of cheesecake to take home) and P.F. Chang's (why anybody living in the Bay Area would ever feel a desire to eat that truly crappy food I don't know) have had a serious Wal-Mart affect on what few non-chain restaurants are around.
Yeah, I can get non-chain food but it sucks that it is only at the $20 per entree level. I hate the burbs. Recently there was a four hour wait for Cheesecake Factory (which I can semi-understand at the SF Union Square location since it has a great view but we're talking about a restaurant in a shopping mall parking lot).
So rants the guy who has quadrupled his fast food intake since moving out of the city.
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