Twenty or 30 years ago, they were part of the throngs of teenagers and 20-somethings who populated the rock-all-night, party-every-day world of a back-bay section of this beach town known as the Barbary Coast, reports the Inquirer's Jacqueline Urgo. But they have now grown up and so has the neighborhood, with its expensive condos, swanky restaurants and luxury Escalades. That's why the stabbing death of 37-year-old British tourist a week ago was such an aberration, locals and regular visitors said.
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