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You lost credibility with me by repeated use of the vulgar "San Fran". It's THE CITY. :)
San Diego, THE CITY, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver Yep, I can see how that would work.
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What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
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Re: What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
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I considered moving to SF but chose Austin instead. I refuse to live in a state with such a dysfunctional government ... You do realize you live in Texas, right?
You do realize that there are people outside of your little world that aren't leftists/socialists/fascists, right?
Honest question: do you actually know what fascist means? If so, do you not understand that it is vastly different than "leftist" or "socialist"?
Re: What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
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I considered moving to SF but chose Austin instead. I refuse to live in a state with such a dysfunctional government ... You do realize you live in Texas, right?
As a non-Texan, I'd be interested if could you share some of the dysfunctions of their government? I haven't heard many people claim that before, so I'm curious as to what I'm missing.
TX has had massive shortfalls in the last two biennial budgets. As big as CA's annual one:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-usa-deficits-st...
So imagine an already very low service state having to cut budgets even more. Am sure that will work out well for the kids long-term. The State is tossing welfare/health/service issues down to the counties now, so expect your property taxes to skyrocket in the next decade. Some counties will be rich, and most will be poor.
Not happy to with keeping MLK or Jefferson out of K-12 history textbooks, the governor and his lackies are going after those pointy-head elitists at UT.
Expect the next short-fall to be ~$30B. You're going to pay one way or another.
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Buy local is the biggest crock (with one exception: if you honestly and truly believe the food is better quality). It causes a net loss for society. Consumers can't purchase as many goods, and the goods being purchased are not being produced as efficiently as the 'non-locals' version. Which means your groceries cost more every week then they would have otherwise. http://mises.org/daily/5283/The-BuyLocal-Canard
Ah, a Mises Institute article, definitely a non-biased source not trying to push a certain socioeconomic agenda.
Ah, a personal attack against the organization whom hosts the article and yet complete avoidance of any consideration of the points made in the article, so refreshing.
Re: What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
#345I considered moving to SF but chose Austin instead. I refuse to live in a state with such a dysfunctional government and ridiculously high taxes. Some of the same reasons I left NY. You can do tech anywhere. You do not need to live in the bay area. If you really like the city pick a place (like Austin) with inexpensive direct flights and go a few times a month. You'll still save money.
But now you're living in TX? Despite Austin being an enclave of politically progressive views, you're still surrounded by well armed pickup truck driving rednecks on their way to the Dairy Queen in 110" heat?
Paying the SF "tax" is worth every penny in my opinion.
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Better than Seattle. But oh the sunny days. Oh. The. Sunny. Days.
I will give it to you that those special days where it remains 75 throughout the entirety of the day are pretty awesome. However, in 18 months here, I can count those on two hands, and the days where it was comfortable in shorts/tshirt until 8-10 at night number at probably 2.
When you're from the cold Europe like me, the weather in SF is good !
I lived there for a while and I loved it.
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Anybody know what the North Bay is like? Is it very expensive?
Beautiful and actually, in some cases, substantially cheaper... depending on how north we're talking about. I'd prefer it to Oakland -- but I'm ok with suburbs.
What about transportation?
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You do realize that there are people outside of your little world that aren't leftists/socialists/fascists, right?
You do realize that, objectively, Martin Luther King was more instrumental in the Civil Rights movement than Lyndon Johnson was, right? Oh, wait, you might not, because the Texas Board of Education took it upon themselves to re-write history. Low taxes are cool and all, but I don't see how anyone could live in peace with that public school system.
Anonymous wrote the Declaration of Independence too, apparently.
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I hate that everyone calls the weather here amazing. Being cold all but maybe 30-40 days a year is not incredible weather, especially factoring in fog.
Go spend a winter in NY and then complain about the SF weather.
I don't think it's a fair comparison, though. San Francisco weather is exceptionally cold given its geographical location. It shares the same latitude as Mediterranean countries like Spain, Greece and Turkey but is much colder than them year around. This is why SF residents tend to be bitter. :)
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Chicago has a huge homeless problem. http://www.chicagohomeless.org/faq-studies/
They must "hide" them well. I've lived in Chicago all of my life and there's no comparison to SF.
Agreed 100%. I lived on Division and Wells for 4 years and never saw homelessness like I see walking from our startup office in SF to visit our bank.
That said, Chicago's true poor are cached away far south of the places where people who read Hacker News would likely live.