Having lived in Saudi Arabia, Italy, Los Angeles, Manhattan, and Kentucky, author Zoe Ferraris now lives in rented former major's quarters in the Presidio. It's a far cry from Jeddah, the humid, 120-degree city in the mideast where "her Saudi-Palestinian Bedouin husband's family would give their things away, as if they were ashamed to be fortunate enough to own them." We love her definition of home...
'Finding Nouf,' Planting Roots
SF Chronicle: 06.18.08
Susan Fornoff writes in today's Chron, "Though she somewhat resents the bedouin purges that took a car and a washing machine, and she treasures her Bedouin teapots, her grandmother's Shakespeare, her Om Kolthoum cassettes, things do not define her home... 'I used to define home as wherever my family was - when you grow up nomadic, family is pretty much the only constant,' she said. 'But like a lot of families, mine is now spread out. ... So at some point home became the place where I have the most history, the most friends. San Francisco is that place.'"
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I don't know why the Chronicle (and AT) included the picture of the big picturesque white houses in the article - She doesn't live in one of those, but in one of the smaller 1970's row-houses in a completely different area of the Presidio.
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bepsf: says North Fort Scott, so it's these:
http://www.presidio.gov/leasing/residentialleasing/neighborhoods/northfortscott/
And says it's not far from Pilot's Row, which are those white houses:
http://www.presidio.gov/leasing/residentialleasing/neighborhoods/pilotsrow/
Map here:
http://www.presidio.gov/leasing/residentialleasing/neighborhoods/
The rent is insane, no matter where you live there. What's a house like this go for in rural areas:
http://www.presidio.gov/leasing/residentialleasing/neighborhoods/funston/
bedrooms: 5
bath: 3.5
sq ft: 3200
rent: $10,600
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Huh...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Queen-Anne-Style-Victorian-1-1-4-Acre-2-Story-Home_W0QQitemZ180251196157QQihZ008QQcategoryZ12605QQcmdZViewItem
$70,000 on eBay.
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Thanks for the Presidio links, True Blue! The pre 1900's - 1920's structures are beautiful. Who knew military housing was ever that pretty? Now, the ones built in the 1960's and 1970's are as bad as I imagined military housing to be...
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I grew up in the military and always had the most incredible houses and apartments to live in. That's officer's housing by the way—housing for enlisted personnel, as I remember, was dreary and ugly and should be entirely rethought. That being said, I agree with the writer and home being a mutable thing when you are military. I was born in one place but lived in about 12 other places before I went to college. As a result the place my mother always said you call home is the place you felt most comfortable living. Which isn't where I am now.
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