I ended up here because I lost my rent-controlled apartment, which shattered my life into a million pieces. Thank God I had a couple of buddies to rent a room from while I try to reassemble the bits of my life. To make matters more complex: I lived downtown for a decade or more, and so I learned to live without a car. But my buddies who had a room for me to rent, well, they're out here near Citrus and Oak Grove in the way sticks, and so the nearest BART station is three miles. I'm slowly putting together some little existence out here, but it's rough. Plus, the three friends I had out this way got creeped out because I went on disability and they were too conservative to handle the fact that I'm receiving social services. But it is beautiful out here, and I'm going to keep trying to make it. Found a little Buddhist Temple and a Hindu Temple. That helped. Can't afford a car, so I'm buy roller skates to get around on. I will adapt somehow.