I think I hate San Francisco.

Tokyo Slim · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by NorCal

It would be easier to get a permit to drown kittens.
Bad ass. See guys, San Fran isn't so bad after all!!! Where do I sign up for the kitten cleansing permit?

ConcernedParent · Nov 10, 2010

SF sounds pretty cool if you're old and rich. Wait a second, I think I'm on to something.

edinatlanta · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by Manton

I think it is physically the most beautiful place in the world.
Seriously dude, go to Sydney. The harbour divides the city, then there are little inlets that further divide each side of the water, so you round a corner and *BAM* there's the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, walk another 100 meters and your back in the bush...lots of hills, better trees, far superior weather...

Originally Posted by Mr Herbert

Sydney. Actually very similar to SF in many ways, just much nicer beaches, better weather and the harbour beats the bay.
fer truth. At any rate I guess all yalll left your heart outside San Francisco?

RSS · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by ConcernedParent

SF sounds pretty cool if you're old and rich.
No, no ... that's when you buy a private island in the Pacific Northwest and get the hell out of Dodge.

RSS · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by edinatlanta

Seriously dude, go to Sydney. The harbour divides the city, then there are little inlets that further divide each side of the water, so you round a corner and *BAM* there's the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, walk another 100 meters and your back in the bush...lots of hills, better trees, far superior weather...
Completely true ... but it's in ... Australia.

Don't get me wrong ... I love remote living ... but I do like being able to get somewhere in less than a ten to twenty hour flight.

james_timothy · Nov 10, 2010

Oh yeah- one of the islands between Vancouver and Victoria. That is a dream.

Sydney is like a cross between San Francisco, Seattle, and someplace with nice weather; San Diego maybe. Funny thing is, PG likes Melbourne better, at least for the coffee scene. That definitely puts it on my to visit list.

edinatlanta · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by james_timothy

Funny thing is, PG likes Melbourne better, at least for the coffee scene. That definitely puts it on my to visit list.

Australia has some of the best coffee you'll find. Although I forget the name of it, some roaster in the Granville Public Market had coffee that literally made me stop in my tracks when drinking it it was that good.

lefty · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by RSS

No, no ... that's when you buy a private island in the Pacific Northwest and get the hell out of Dodge.
I like this: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...ll-wright.html If I put in two years in purgatory maybe I can upgrade. lefty

RSS · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by lefty

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...ll-wright.html
Precisely. But ... I'd better stop promoting the place ... or the reason I moved here will be gone.

tattersall · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by RSS

Precisely. But ... I'd better stop promoting the place ... or the reason I moved here will be gone.

My friends who live on the islands (gulf and san juans) bemoan the fact that so many outsiders have discovered and encroached on "their" piece of paradise in the last decade. Apparently the worst of the new arrivers are ... wait for it ... builders and architects.

RSS · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by tattersall

Apparently the worst of the new arrivers are ... wait for it ... builders and architects.

That is indeed true. Up until recently ... there were a number of small architecturally designed developments going in ... and this is not a "development" kind of place.

Fortunately I inherited (well, bought) my place from family ... my uncle.

Lighthouse · Nov 10, 2010

Once an elegant town filled with elegant people, SF has become DisneyWorld for the tragically hip. Progress: sidewalks as toilets, belligerent beggars, and local government bent on controlling the thoughts of its citizens.

No doubt, SF is naturally beautiful; its just the people who make it unpleasant.

RSS · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by Lighthouse

Once an elegant town filled with elegant people, SF has become DisneyWorld for the tragically hip. Progress: sidewalks as toilets, belligerent beggars, and local government bent on controlling the thoughts of its citizens.
And Union Square has become a retail Disneyland for tourists ... with Mega-Crap Mega-Boutiques. Then again ... so has much of the area around 5th Avenue & 57th streets in New York. Poor little Tiffany.

JustinW · Nov 10, 2010

I love visiting SF. Whenever I travel through California I try to book via SF rather than LAX and spend a couple days there. It really is very pretty. I just wouldn't want to live there.

Originally Posted by edinatlanta

Australia has some of the best coffee you'll find. Although I forget the name of it, some roaster in the Granville Public Market had coffee that literally made me stop in my tracks when drinking it it was that good.

Are you a fan of the short black or the flat white?

imatlas · Nov 10, 2010

Originally Posted by JustinW

I love visiting SF. Whenever I travel through California I try to book via SF rather than LAX and spend a couple days there. It really is very pretty. I just wouldn't want to live there.

Are you a fan of the short black or the flat white?

Thank you. This is exactly what I like to see: come for a visit, spend some $$$, pay some exorbitant sales and hospitality taxes, then go on your way.

I think I hate San Francisco.

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