Why San Francisco Is Not New York
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Why San Francisco Is Not New York
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#3Not to mention, New York is relatively clean compared to San Francisco. San Francisco shuts down at 10pm; New York truly is the city that never sleeps, and many neighborhoods feel busy and alive at all hours of the night. The public transportation in SF (and the larger Bay Area) is a classist, unreliable nightmare. New York has probably the best public transit systems in the country. Owning a car in NY is unusual and unnecessary. In San Francisco, most people own a car, just like any other suburban area in the US. The number and quality of restaurants in NY is unrivaled. New York is unquestionably more diverse. The list goes on and on.
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#4Not to mention, New York is relatively clean compared to San Francisco. San Francisco shuts down at 10pm; New York truly is the city that never sleeps, and many neighborhoods feel busy and alive at all hours of the night. The public transportation in SF (and the larger Bay Area) is a classist, unreliable nightmare. New York has probably the best public transit systems in the country. Owning a car in NY is unusual and…
A good part of SF not seeming to be a 24 hour city, is that public transit in SF doesn't run 24 hours-at least not BART, and I don't think MUNI Metro does either. The last SB Caltrain leaves at midnight, I think?
EDIT: I'll give you being clean, SF can stand to be cleaned up a bit.
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#5Not to mention, New York is relatively clean compared to San Francisco. San Francisco shuts down at 10pm; New York truly is the city that never sleeps, and many neighborhoods feel busy and alive at all hours of the night. The public transportation in SF (and the larger Bay Area) is a classist, unreliable nightmare. New York has probably the best public transit systems in the country. Owning a car in NY is unusual and…
And yes, if we're talking about SF proper, (not the Bay Area as a whole) MUNI can stand to be massively improved.
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#6> The lack of diversity between social groups in San Francisco isn’t going to change anytime soon, as the number of tech employees in the Bay Area is only going to continue to rise.
I am not sure I understand. Tech sector brings people from all over the world including India, China, South America and Europe.
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#7> So what exactly is San Francisco? When I came across a passage in the book, “The Annals of San Francisco,” about the 1840s Gold Rush, I found the answer to that question.
So SF is bunch of gold diggers?
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#8> The lack of diversity between social groups in San Francisco isn’t going to change anytime soon, as the number of tech employees in the Bay Area is only going to continue to rise. I am not sure I understand. Tech sector brings people from all over the world including India, China, South America and Europe.
Real diversity is not how you look or where you come from, but what's inside you and how you think and the culture you belong to.
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#9> The lack of diversity between social groups in San Francisco isn’t going to change anytime soon, as the number of tech employees in the Bay Area is only going to continue to rise. I am not sure I understand. Tech sector brings people from all over the world including India, China, South America and Europe.
Actually, that's one good thing about Santa Clara County (ie Silicon Valley proper), despite being a suburban hellhole, there's a ton of ethnic diversity.
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#10Not to mention, New York is relatively clean compared to San Francisco. San Francisco shuts down at 10pm; New York truly is the city that never sleeps, and many neighborhoods feel busy and alive at all hours of the night. The public transportation in SF (and the larger Bay Area) is a classist, unreliable nightmare. New York has probably the best public transit systems in the country. Owning a car in NY is unusual and…
The food culture and restaurants in NYC are on a completely different, higher level than SF. Having experienced both, I laugh whenever people in the Bay Area try to claim that SF has the best restaurants. It's not even a race; NY has SF whipped in that regard.