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Yeah SF is such a crappy city. Everything's overpriced. Cant get around, public transportation sucks so your lifestyle is limited to a 1 mile radius, which tota
by LZ_Khan 4y ago
Yeah SF is such a crappy city. Everything's overpriced. Cant get around, public transportation sucks so your lifestyle is limited to a 1 mile radius, which totally defeats the point of being in a city. Could uber everywhere, that's what most people do, but that's pricey as well, and you have to deal with human interaction every time you want to go somewhere. Biking through throngs of homeless people and confusing streets also less than ideal.
There's hardly a scene for anything you're interested in either. Very small scenes for most things and a real lack of community feel for some strange reason. Maybe it's the lack of mobility around the city? The eccentricness of tech workers? In any case, it sucks.
Paradoxically, despite the lack of mobility, everything worth going to is also permanently crowded. Long wait times for food along with high prices, unnecessary taxes, and restaurants that look like they probably house some rats.
Weather is not bad compared to other cities, but still annoying. It's always just a bit too cold to walk around comfortably in a T-shirt.
It really reminds me of the experience of waiting to get into a nightclub with a mile-long line of dudes (also par for the course in SF, by the way). Walk in, take a look, wonder why anyone waited in the first place, and walk out like a revolving door.
- xarope 4y agowhen I was in SF about 10+ years ago, there were a lot of e-scooters/e-skateboarders. Is that still not the case?
- doctorwho42 4y agoIt's simple; scenes are expensive. You need space to have a scene, you need a business for that scene/space, and that business needs to be profitable enough to pay for rent and fair wages while also supporting the scene/community. One of the biggest things I saw in my work travels was how low vs high COL affects availability of scenes and community. Where in low cost cities like Pittsburgh and Rochester you have budding communities and scenes, but in places like Boston and NYC, those same type of scenes can't compete. So they shrink or disappear entirely, to be replaced by name brand chains/companies.
- selectodude 4y agoAlso, San Francisco is just…small. Not that many people live there for a major city.
- laurencerowe 4y agoSan Francisco is just one borough within the Bay Area with its 8M population. It’s a pain there’s no metropolitan level political body, but then neither did London between 1986 and 2000.
- 8note 4y agoScenes are cheap. It's SFO that's expensive. Scenes take land, and lots of it for people to live in and do things, and SFO would prefer to pack in more expensive tech workers than anything else
- bsesg 4y agoYou want the "community feel" but don't like dealing with human interaction? I'm really confused here
- LZ_Khan 4y agoSitting in a car with a stranger isn't my idea of community.