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The food in the Bay Area was bland? And there were no hiking/camping opportunities? The Bay Area definitely has some problems - but a lot of your complaints ar

by N1H1L 7y ago

The food in the Bay Area was bland? And there were no hiking/camping opportunities? The Bay Area definitely has some problems - but a lot of your complaints are untethered from reality.

triceratops 6y ago
> The food in the Bay Area was bland? Yes. The Bay Area has an awful restaurant scene - overpriced and not very good (unless you're talking about $$$ places). It's just one disappointment after another. The high cost of living precludes any of the quality workers from being employed at moderate-cost eateries.
- agitator 6y ago
  Yeah, another huge factor for me was just how unhappy all of the service workers were. But I don't blame them. There's no way they could afford to live within what you or I would call a reasonable commute. So they would trek daily to provide for people making orders of magnitude more money. And the ones who were wiling to accept that kind of torture, were the ones who couldn't get jobs anywhere else more reasonable.
agitator 6y ago
The food scene is definitely overhyped. Maybe if you are coming from the midwest it's impressive, but for me it was repeatedly a huge let down. There is plenty of hiking and skiing nearby but the point I was trying to make is that it was tough to break away both from work and from people who loved to talk about work.
- wbronitsky 6y ago
  Living in the Bay Area, I find the food scene amazing. I do, however, find the food scene in San Francisco bland and repetitive. The same pattern holds for cultural activities and the outdoors; SF has the same things over and over again, while the Bay Area as a whole has an abundance of options to fill your life with. I have also found that many people who move to San Francisco spend 99%+ of their time in SF. I do agree with your sentiments about what a large amount of people in the Bay Area want to spend their time thinking and talking about. I stopped going to parties years ago after I couldn’t find a conversation that wasn’t about how this dude worked at Apple.

by N1H1L 7y ago

The food in the Bay Area was bland? And there were no hiking/camping opportunities? The Bay Area definitely has some problems - but a lot of your complaints are untethered from reality.

triceratops 6y ago

> The food in the Bay Area was bland? Yes. The Bay Area has an awful restaurant scene - overpriced and not very good (unless you're talking about $$$ places). It's just one disappointment after another. The high cost of living precludes any of the quality workers from being employed at moderate-cost eateries.

agitator 6y ago
Yeah, another huge factor for me was just how unhappy all of the service workers were. But I don't blame them. There's no way they could afford to live within what you or I would call a reasonable commute. So they would trek daily to provide for people making orders of magnitude more money. And the ones who were wiling to accept that kind of torture, were the ones who couldn't get jobs anywhere else more reasonable.

agitator 6y ago

The food scene is definitely overhyped. Maybe if you are coming from the midwest it's impressive, but for me it was repeatedly a huge let down. There is plenty of hiking and skiing nearby but the point I was trying to make is that it was tough to break away both from work and from people who loved to talk about work.

wbronitsky 6y ago
Living in the Bay Area, I find the food scene amazing. I do, however, find the food scene in San Francisco bland and repetitive. The same pattern holds for cultural activities and the outdoors; SF has the same things over and over again, while the Bay Area as a whole has an abundance of options to fill your life with. I have also found that many people who move to San Francisco spend 99%+ of their time in SF. I do agree with your sentiments about what a large amount of people in the Bay Area want to spend their time thinking and talking about. I stopped going to parties years ago after I couldn’t find a conversation that wasn’t about how this dude worked at Apple.