Why San Francisco Sucks
I was inspired to write my opinion on why San Francisco sucks by this post, written by a Twitter Programmer named Alex Payne.
I don’t like San Francisco, because as a city, it’s dishonest.
We’ve heard about the free-thinking liberalism, the summer of love, the open-mindedness, the marvelous gay influence on the city’s culture— and how well they are integrated into the rest of the city; the overall notion that San Francisco, at it’s core, is good.
I do not believe there is any goodness at San Francisco’s core.
I don’t believe that any of the above notions were, are or will ever be true.
Decadence vs. Exiguity
One thing that will strike you about San Francisco is the young, rich, politically liberal people living and behaving decadently while intentionally, veiling it only slightly.
This thin veil is in line with the politically liberal majority, and in a sense, even defines it.
There is something about San Franciscan liberals that seems to say:
Hey, i’ve paid my share of taxes to help all of you, I deserve this.
Alongside this very decadent living is one of the largest populations of homeless people, per capita, in the nation. I could be surveying the homeless situation completely wrong, but again I’ve never witnessed such a disharmony between the homed and the homeless than in San Francisco. Arguments, fights, confrontations– all very common, and San Franciscan’s seem to love to tell you about it.
Look what I have to deal with to be this open-minded.
Homeless people are the untouchable lepers, and because the macro do-gooders believe that they have bigger fish to fry, and everything they (the homeless) could possibly need is readily available, it releases them of all liability. I’ve never seen a group of homed people setting up tables with food or passing out blankets or sleeping bags; i’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but i’ve never seen it.
Another thing that leave the leaky bucket of compassion empty by the time it reaches the homeless or very poor is that everyone in San Francisco already has a cause to attend to, and again, usually a very lofty one.
Also, you’d think that Germany, Sweden and Brittain were impoverished developing nations with how diligently San Franciscans strive to support their respective automotive industries.
Modern Antiquity?
San Francisco has, within it’s city limits, probably one of the highest concentrations of designers, computer programmers and other assorted tech folks.
This said, the city is embarrassingly low-fi.
I think this is held in place on the surface by some nebulous spartan, Steampunk “it’s-cool-because-its-old” sensibility but in actually only amounts to laziness, apathy and nobody actually believing they’ll live in San Francisco past their 30’s.
If you’re not familiar with San Francisco, it’s pretty much victorian houses from one side to the other. If you’ve watched Full House you’ve seen em.
Now these are built to hold more people and room in a small space than say a craftsman style house, but are by no means efficient by modern measures.
This liberal (?) preservation of the city’s inefficient past should be appalling to actual liberal sensibilities, yet knocking down a half dozen of these dinosaurs and building a jumbo, mid-income, utopian live-work complex would probably make most San Franciscans place their Ferragamo handkerchiefs over their mouths in horror.
Let me tell you something: it gets really cold in San Francisco in any given month. These old victorian houses are not cheap, green, energy efficient or anything else to heat.
Imagine what kind of Green heating, cooling, water renewal, recycling and computer controlled systems these nerds could design? Every apartment could have a fucking trash, recycling and compost chute!
The addition of 10,000 units would decrease the price of rent, making social equality more possible.
What are these assholes doing instead? Paying $4,000 per month for an old victorian house. You fucking hypocritical losers. These houses are the Hummers of houses. Get that through your heads.
Also, if you think BART is some state of the art subway think again. I mean just the cars themselves are rickety, dirty, ugly and probably inefficient.
Must Be A Friendly City, Right?
As Alex mentioned in his post, San Franciscans are not friendly, yet loathe those from Los Angeles as being “fake”. “Fake” is the local dialect for “good looking” and “suntanned”.
Those who live there think they are adventurers traversing some kind of concrete jungle and you need to cut your own teeth. If you’re from out of town they’ll tell you how tough it is to live there, which vis a vis means they are tough.
If you’re a tourist, they pretty much think you’re a worthless piece of unwashed trash.
Let me break it down for you further:
- Hippies hate yuppies because they have good jobs and make everything expensive.
- Straight people publicly say they like the SF Gays but privately disdain their sexual decadence, their overtness, and their sassy attitudes during confrontations and disagreements.
- As mentioned, the homeless are disregarded at best and loathed at better. The homeless think everyone else is snot-nosed richie rich, nerdy cracker asses from crackertown, and by and large most experts agree that thesis is correct.
- Black people are treated with a noticeable level of respect and deference, and are prized member of social circles so long as they are authenticly urban and employed. Homeless blacks are pretty much treated the same as other homeless people.
- Latinos are not well represented in San Francisco nor are they prized members of a social circle, necessarily, however knowing a good burrito restaurant will win you much honor and esteem amongst your comrades.
- Asians are not given special treatment and are mostly relegated to the very authentic Chinatown district or nearby suburbs if they are Asian-Americans (you know what I mean), except for attractive asian women, which are highly prized as girlfriends due to their tradition of being culturally and aesthetically exotic.
- Straight Men are seen as a either a challenge or a waste by the large gay community, however most are unattractive enough to avoid either category.
- Straight women are a good bet if you’re single and you can locate some, though they are somewhat scarce and horded by the Haves. You can identify a straight woman in San Francisco by looking for a geeky arm deathlocked around her shoulder.
In Conclusion:
There is some good about San Francisco– a lot of good– but the things i’ve mentioned are so unbearable to me that I could never have a long term relationship with San Francisco.
Unless I was gay. Then i’d be all over San Francisco like hobos on ham sandwiches.
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So I take it you’ve spent considerable time in SF that you used to formulate your opinion?
yes I have Heman.
What do you think I just made up all of this shit?