I still kinda feel like a stranger in a strange land when it comes to life in the Mission, an area of San Francisco that’s filled with hipsters and gang-bangers and crackheads and Vice Presidents of Product Development, all within close quarters, doing their best to ignore each other.

LOL, this sounds like such an accurate description of the Mission, it's kind of funny. Luckily I am partially all 4 of those things -- hipster, gangbanger, VP of Product Development, and ... well, maybe 3 of those things.

Yep, I finally snagged an apartment in exactly the neighborhood I was hoping for.

Two blocks from this:

And half a block from this (Tartine, the best bakery in the galaxy):