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I know very little about SF Pluses: It's a gorgeous city, the people are generally nice, the weather in the whole Bay Area tends to stay pretty close to perfec
by zephjc 17y ago
I know very little about SF
Pluses: It's a gorgeous city, the people are generally nice, the weather in the whole Bay Area tends to stay pretty close to perfect year round, lots of cultural variety, lots to do and see.
Minuses: the parking sucks, the traffic sucks, the myriad one-way streets suck.
In short, its a great tourist destination, but you probably wouldn't want to live there.
- hugh_ 17y agoThat's a rather generous description of the downsides of San Francisco. Parking and traffic suck in a lot of places, and the one-way streets aren't so bad once you get used to them. The two worst problems of San Francisco are still the filth (both the rubbish-in-the-streets form of filth and the human form of filth) and the ridiculously high cost of living. The first means that you can't walk down the street for more than a couple of minutes without some weirdo either pestering you for money or trying to sell you drugs. The second means that having a reasonably nice place to live (say, a three or four bedroom detached house with a backyard -- the kind of modest middle-class dwelling that most modest middle-class families inhabit) is completely out of reach for all but the super-rich. San Francisco is a great place to be at a certain stage in your life, but unless you do become super-rich it's an awful place to stay.
- rantfoil 17y agoHaving a car in SF does suck. But you wouldn't think of having a car in NYC would you? Fix: Ride a bike / use public transit / live near work.