How San Franciscans View the Bay Area

• San Francisco is an interesting place, I moved here in 95, ive been here since. the bad? 1.greedy landlords and politicians created a hellish real state bubble that is still causing havoc, most of folks income goes to rent. 2.The infrastructure is full of inept corrupt greedy institutions (MUNI,WELLS FARGO, etc), and 3. -the "hipster infestation" of the city resembles a kitchen taken over by rabid racoons. The good? well the weather is not as bad as the east coast or the midwest, but lately Im tempted to take a chance on months of snow storms.

• I lived in San Francisco from around 1973 to 2003. We moved from PHX,AZ and i remember asking my mama as we crossed the Bay Bridge into SF...'mama why we got to move here'...and years later I was the last to come back home to PHX and I truly miss SF and the time that I had went to school there, ran the streets there, and just plain had a BLAST...I have visited since then and although things have changed there,like everthing,San Francisco gave me some my most memorable moments in my life. It was truly a "SAN FRANCISCO FREAK,oppss I mean TREAT!"....lol

• I lived in San Francisco from around 1973 to 2003. We moved from PHX,AZ and i remember asking my mama as we crossed the Bay Bridge into SF...mama why we got to move here...and years later I was the last to come back home to PHX and I truly miss SF and the time that I had went to school there, ran the streets there, and just plain had a BLAST...I have visited since then and although things have changed there,like everthing,San Francisco gave me some my most memorable moments in my life. It was truly a "SAN FRANCISCO FREAK,oppss I mean TREAT!"....lol

• Mark Simon = public affairs (flak) for SamTrans

• Mark works in public relations for San Mateo County now, so he has to be slightly more careful about how he disses San Francisco.

• San Francisco is the smallest city in the world. It's also one big ass shopping mall.

• Oh yeah! Mark Simon! Where is he these days?

• Mark Simon, a columnist who covered the Peninsula, used to refer to the Bay Area suburbs as "the colonies."

• What's this "San Franciso" thing? Everything north of Santa Barbara is Canada.

• Ha, I can see that, though some San Franciscans view Palo Alto as a sunnier, safer, and snootier Southern appendage.

• Saul Steinberg, in turn, owes Myles na gCopaleen the same apologies. "An B� Bocht" came out in 1941, Steinberg's cover was in 1976.

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