Three things I'm done with in San Francisco

It has hills, too. And it's pricy. And there's a water shortage. What's not to hate?

What about the human poop everywhere?

"NY transplant in SF going on three years"

I trust that you refuse to wear the flower in your hair.

I'm done with San Francisco entirely.

I've never forgiven San Francisco's St. Francis for: 1. The hideous 1972 tower addition to the hotel and equally hideous extension of the lobby incorporating the tower 2. The 2004 redesign of the beautiful Beaux Arts lobby 3. Closing the Compass Rose restaurant

Attractive cities built on hills: Pittsburgh, Lisbon, Monte Carlo, Lausanne, Santiago, Funchal, Rome, etc. SF is a lovely town but nothing but how unliveable it is for the past 2 decades. Lived there 9 months in the 80s and went contentedly back to NYC.

R1 and R2, those are the obvious ones, which were expected.

People shouldn't take backpacks in bars? Tssss.

4) straights in the Castro

R8, people can bring whatever they want into a bar, but if someone brings a backpack he/she needs to remove it from his/her body before choosing a place to stand and drink.

What about people smelling their own farts?

Just the the 3, dear?

[6] Why did you find San Francisco unlivable?

Great place to visit (Castro and the Exploratorium), but I want my visit next summer to be short and sweet.

Lived in SF 11 years. Enough was enough. Don't miss it one bit; what I actually miss are the areas around it - the beaches, trails, etc. But the city itself has way more "cons" than "pros" and I'll never be convinced it's a culinary mecca. It's full of trends and pretentiousness at exorbitant prices. The day you pay $20 for chicken thighs, time to get your head examined.

I am R6 SF was NOT unliveable R13. I was young and SF is small and not for generalists. You need a specific skill to be middle class. There are a lot of "underemployed" people. NYC at the time was the opposite. If you have a brain and work hard, NYC loves you and finds professional uses for you and you rise and shine and sparkly.

2nd. NYC is about money and I experienced SF (it was the 80s) to be about lifestyle and oddly provincial. Everyone telling you why their lifestyle choice was so great. NYC you find yourself with unusual bed-partners - friends lovers etc but SF is cliquish.

And finally, SF is small so can suffer for the size. It was the 80s and AIDs was experienced in a different way on a daily basis in the in NYC. It was not THE spectre of life in NY but SF had a bombed out feeling for a number of years.

It used to be filled with artists and now it's filled with techies. Just not the same.

Techies suck.

I got tired of banging Mexicans in SF. So good to be back to the blacks boys and Puerto Ricans of NYC.

The homeless people are so aggressive in SF. If you don't give them money, they keep following and harassing you until you do

I left after Judy Barton got splattered all over the Mission grounds.

It's a lazy city. Where's the drive?

I loved SF when I was there but I was also severely hyper-adrenalized worrying for my safety. I could not stop worrying that peeps were going to slash or rob me.

is San Francisco really as progressive and gay friendly as its made out to be. I mean I know its the most gay friendly American city but thats not saying much.

OP, I get a kick out of anyone from New York or New Jersey commenting on other people's failure to use turn signals.

When did wearing backpacks become cool? I couldn’t wait until I no longer had to.

I always hated the fog when I lived there. The city was always cold and damp.

SF elder native here, moved 60 miles north 20 ago. The city I was born in no longer exists. Every passing decade made it a different experience. I still love it but it's not the same place I knew as a child and teen.

Went to the Women's March in 2017. Found easy parking and walked over a mile to the Civic Center. Had breakfast in Toast on Polk St. A fabulous day among kindred spirits. Too bad it's so damn expensive now, not just SF but surrounding counties. A travesty for the middle class and economically challenged. The homeless were always a problem but truly in dire straights now.

Visited Sausalito two weeks ago in the age of Covid. Place was deserted, shops closed. Still enough open to have some fun and a nice deli sandwich outside on the bay.

I love this region, but also love other places I visit. We're just so lucky to be alive on beautiful planet earth before the whole thing incinerates. It's hard on the soul to live in blighted areas.