I live by the Panhandle, so I have access to parks, and I'm not tucked away in some far corner like the Richmond where I expected that the transportation would

I live by the Panhandle, so I have access to parks, and I'm not tucked away in some far corner like the Richmond where I expected that the transportation would be so ineffectual... yet visiting my friend in Chinatown is either a 10-15 minute drive, or a 40-50 minute bus ride + walk (biking being more of an option before the whole track run-in...) In general comparing cities will always be somewhat like comparing sports teams: everyone has a favorite, for different reasons, and there's no right answer. But too many times since I've gotten here I've seen people try to compare SF to places like NYC and LA. I don't even like LA, but I'm not going to try and compare SF to LA because that'd be like comparing an NBA team to a "G League" team. People keep asking me stuff like "SF is just like a mini-NYC right?!" upon hearing where I came from, and I humor them to be nice, but no. It's really not at all.