Hello Latrell,

I really liked how you took your own perspective in living in Oakland and saw both good and bad from it. Sharing your own personal feelings is hard to share sometimes and by reading your posts, gives hope for other students or people to be able to share their thoughts and opinions as well.

You have very good insight regards to rent being so hard to afford right now. In fact not only Oakland is struggling but over all the bay area. It is so sad to see people moving out of the area where they called “home” for several years and I do think it’s not fair. However it’s the society we live in now but hopefully it gets better. I do also…[Read more]