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Been living here since the 80’s. 100% agree that SV is the new New York. Reading your post makes me think I’m reading sowmthing I myself wrote. I don’t even go

Been living here since the 80’s. 100% agree that SV is the new New York. Reading your post makes me think I’m reading sowmthing I myself wrote. I don’t even go to many of the cafes here because I don’t want to feel everyone’s anxiety and competitiveness that permeates the air.

klipt 8y ago
> SV is the new New York Pity it doesn't have the good parts of NYC, like decent public transit, Broadway, Central Park etc.
- pm90 8y ago
  > Central Park etc Oh come on. Public transport and Culture, sure. But at least admit that there are a TON more parks and outdoor recreation options (which are easily accessible) in SF than in NYC :)
  - free652 8y ago
    Not a ton more. SF doesn’t have as many parks as NYC. If we are talking about the Bay Area then you forget that NYS is just forest. https://www.tpl.org/sites/default/files/2016%20City%20Park%20Facts_0.pdf https://www.tpl.org/sites/default/files/2016%20City%20Park%2...
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timr 8y ago
Moved to NYC after nearly a decade in SF (partially overlapping with the OP). I feel like it's unfair to call SF the "new New York": New York definitely cares about money, but it allows room for lots of different things. It's a far more functional city in every possible dimension, because it accepts (in fact, adores) what it is. IMO, SF stopped being fun not because of the "finance bros", per se, but because the place just never wanted to be a big city. Fundamentally, San Francisco is a gorgeous little seaside town on a too-small peninsula, which valued counterculture and artistic expression. So it was fun to be here for a while when the "startup industry" was a few crazy people doing things against the grain, but it's a different story when those crazy people turned into armies of bland corporate CEOs, hiring armies of rich yuppies to "disrupt" the world in identical ways.
- sixQuarks 8y ago
  I was talking more about the 1980s wallstreet / 1990s American Psycho version of NYC.

klipt 8y ago

> SV is the new New York Pity it doesn't have the good parts of NYC, like decent public transit, Broadway, Central Park etc.

pm90 8y ago
> Central Park etc Oh come on. Public transport and Culture, sure. But at least admit that there are a TON more parks and outdoor recreation options (which are easily accessible) in SF than in NYC :)
- free652 8y ago
  Not a ton more. SF doesn’t have as many parks as NYC. If we are talking about the Bay Area then you forget that NYS is just forest. https://www.tpl.org/sites/default/files/2016%20City%20Park%20Facts_0.pdf https://www.tpl.org/sites/default/files/2016%20City%20Park%2...
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timr 8y ago

Moved to NYC after nearly a decade in SF (partially overlapping with the OP). I feel like it's unfair to call SF the "new New York": New York definitely cares about money, but it allows room for lots of different things. It's a far more functional city in every possible dimension, because it accepts (in fact, adores) what it is. IMO, SF stopped being fun not because of the "finance bros", per se, but because the place just never wanted to be a big city. Fundamentally, San Francisco is a gorgeous little seaside town on a too-small peninsula, which valued counterculture and artistic expression. So it was fun to be here for a while when the "startup industry" was a few crazy people doing things against the grain, but it's a different story when those crazy people turned into armies of bland corporate CEOs, hiring armies of rich yuppies to "disrupt" the world in identical ways.

sixQuarks 8y ago
I was talking more about the 1980s wallstreet / 1990s American Psycho version of NYC.