San Francisco is New York

I've been told that San Francisco is just like New York City; whatever. If you plan to move to San Francisco as a result of the South Park episode, let me just say that you're probably barking up the wrong tree.

Walter Traprock wrote:

What, are you kidding? Just look at it! I mean, Kyle's family moved out of a house in Colorado and was not only able to find a house in San Francisco right away, but could afford it as well!

(Of course, South Park San Francisco, where the skyline reaches past the Golden Gate Bridge, is not like the real San Francisco - okay, people are smug, but they have to be in order to be able to afford the house and gas prices there - which, by the way, is the main reason hybrids are big business there; it has little, if anything, to do with the environment.)

However, San Francisco differs from New York in one important point: it pretty much never snows in San Francisco.

-- Don

Don Del Grande wrote...

I visit San Francisco every few weeks since moving to the Bay Area last year. It has got to be the coolest city on earth! Housing is extremely expensive, but there are thousands of restaurants where a huge meal can be had for under $10. Parking costs $30 an hour, but you get 3 hours on the bus for $1.50. And on every trip I go to Haight-Ashbury then Golden Gate Park where hippies descend upon me offering me the best drugs ever. There is nothing but the finest stinky chronic hydroponic sinsemilla, the most incredibly potent magic mushrooms, and of course lots and lots of LSD. Just last month I scored a ten-strip for $20 from some flea-bitten hippie in the park. Awesome!

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"They said I introduced everybody to acid...I didn't even know
what the fuck acid was until '67 or '68...some kid on the
street corner [in San Francisco] gave me a tab of acid.  I
didn't know what the fuck that shit was."
-- Charles Manson
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Four-Way Windowpane wrote:

I heard that the food is good at SF jail, but then heard complaining about the service.

Walter Traprock wrote...

You haven't been to SF, drugs are the main tourist attraction and so the police don't enforce drug laws.

Don Del Grande wrote:

Plus car ownership is not common in Manhattan - it's an incredible hassle & expense.

I'm 34, a life-long New Yorker and I've never even driven a car, let alone own one.

Chris � wrote:

Do you know how to swim?

As a life-long New Yorker, I can dismiss the comparison completely. Parts of New York City are like San Francisco (the Upper West Side in Manhattan, Park Slope in Brooklyn). Some parts of New York CIty have more in common with the reddest states in middle America (Staten Island elects Republicans!). New York has plenty of capitalist pigs, religious wackos, right-wing demagogues and boring suburban families who take no interest in politics of any particular "wing".

Chris � wrote...

Does New York City have an area where hippies openly smoke and sell dope?

Four-Way Windowpane wrote:

Wall Street

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:02:30 GMT, Four-Way Windowpane wrotC:DRIVE_E

Washington Square Park. At least as of the ealry 90s, when I lived in Manhattan.

That was the pre-Guiliani days.

We did. It was called Tompkins Square Park.