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Things I Hate About You San Francisco Edition

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This is so negative, I wasn't sure if I should bother responding. But I grew up in SF, and I am kind of fascinated by the intensity of the hate some people feel for this city. Obviously, some of the anger from the rest of the country is a result of a pretty extreme leftism in SF (you know, that part where Bill Oreilly invited Al Quaeda to blow up coit tower). That's not a big surprise, not agreeing with it, just saying it's no real mystery.

But this charge that SF isn't a "real" city. I'm not sure what that means. New York and Tokyo are of course vastly larger cities. Maybe it's that SF has a high profile for such a small city, expectations are different?

Seriously, the negativity is palpable. Is the byline "Hate all you want, but please stop bringing my company into this." directed at the author himself, or is this ignorant article really weak bait to get you to look up whatever company he works for.

I stopped reading at the 49ers—sexism, barf.

London and NYC both have an order of magnitude more people than San Francisco, can you really compare their public transit?

To think of the city as only San Francisco proper is misleading. The city is the whole Bay Area, which is one contiguous urban agglomerate. BART and CalTrain fit into this perspective. Of course, London and New York are more compact, so easier to cover with public transport. This perspective doesn't fit with the guy's rant, though.

Perhaps so

You invade the city and then you say it sucks and should be rebuilt just for you. Thank you for sharing.

Wow this guy is a walking stereotype of the mean-spirited angry asian.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40ptshih&src=typd&mode=realtim...

He has a point. I hate MUNI because it's so dirty, and some of the homeless people are just plain nuts.

In Singapore you don't see anything disgusting. How does that work?

Singapore... haven't been there, but it sounds like the absolute polar opposite of SF. In Singapore, you may get in trouble for hugging in public. If SF, until a few months ago, you could walk around naked as long as you were carrying a towel. If you point out that Singapore's hugging law isn't enforced very strictly, well, San Francisco doesn't really enforce the "no pissing in a public fountain in broad daylight" especially strictly.

I actually wish SF could realize that it's possible to have an intensely tolerant and open society without putting up with this kind of blight. Then again, Singapore could realize that they could maintain their very strict public civility without passing laws about what people can do in their own bedroom.

But then, where would we get our "top ten things that are allowed/illegal in SF/Singapore" lists? Toronto?

You don't see it in Singapore because Singapore is a heavily-controlled state where tons of things are capital offenses and you are subjected to physical violence (caning) for things as minor as vandalism.

Christ, what an asshole.

I found the post interesting since I am planing moving from Spain to SF to work after finishing my grade.

There is plenty of information about the goods of SF, but for people from outside it's difficult to find the cons.

Does someone have something to add to the list?

The person who wrote this has some PMS issues too from what I can see...

What you mean to say is that this post is negative and extremely angry. I agree with the comment you should have made! He's also writing a humorous post, so we should take it for what it is.

I don't agree with your flippant sexist comment implying that women are crazy because they have periods, nor with your use of "PMS" to mock the author as an "irrational female." Frankly, that part disgusted me.

The "Weather" section originally contained a misogynist reference to PMS, which is what OP appears to be criticizing.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

Ah, thanks. I'm not sure that excuses it, but it certainly lowers my opinion of the author.

Did he mention how he was going to write letters to city officials? Did he say they will protest? Did he give actual insight to fixing these said issues?

P.S. coming from North Carolina (mountains) to San Francisco I rather enjoy the crazies. The muni is not half bad considering I am being chauffeured around and killing the earth less.

Agreed (I'm from Georgia).

I also consider Atlanta a very "real city" despite the fact that it's public transportation is absolutely atrocious.

GET OFF MY LAWN!

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