What do you like to do there?
What is keeping you there as opposed to living elsewhere?
What is your favorite thing about the city?
Go in depth please!
I am considering relocating from Phoenix AZ, and I need all the reasons I can get!What do you love about San Francisco?
1. Everything! So much to see and do, a great arts and music scene and eating out is always a culinary delight.
2. I've been here 25 years, have a solid career as a performer, a wide circle of friends and a fantastic partner. I can be myself and be accepted and encouraged.
3. The amazing history and natural beauty.
Down side, it is very expensive, unemployment is 12% [so in actuality closer to 20%], crowded, the traffic is insane and the artists and lower middle class is being forced out.
But all things considered, I wouldn't live anyplace else.What do you love about San Francisco?
San Francisco has a well deserved reputation as one of America's most beautiful cities. There's an ancient grove of coastal redwoods (the tallest living plant) only 10 miles from the city center. Right in the middle of the city is the 1,000 acre Golden Gate Park, with its numerous lakes, gardens, and museums. The city has a replica of the Legion of Honor in Paris - a gift from the French government - and a gorgeous Roman temple. And these are really nice, quiet places. It is not like at Disney World where you are fighting with 40,000 kids to even get a peek at it.
If you enjoy a noisier scene, you can get to that easily as well. Downtown San Francisco is very much alive with activity. Shoppers, tourists, office workers, stock brokers, bike messengers, lawyers, and street musicians are always jockeying for position on the sidewalk. Aside from Las Vegas, there are few cities in the West that can compete with it in terms of people watching.
The city has an excellent public transportation system - buses, trams, subway trains, and ferries - that will get you anywhere you want to go in most of the urban and suburban Bay Area. And I absolutely love SFO airport since the latest renovations were completed in 2003. It is now four terminals laid out in a full circle (so it is pretty much impossible to get lost). There's now a direct subway connection to Downtown San Francisco as well.
Now, assuming you have lived in Phoenix for a long time, the climate will take some getting used to. I won't pretend that process will be easy. And while there's a unique beauty to the desert that cooler climates can't replicate, you will learn to appreciate the rain and greenery that comes with it over time. The first time you catch cold from going out without a sweater or jacket though, it will feel absolutely horrible. However, the good news is it only snows in San Francisco once every 20 years. And the "heat waves" that bake the Southwest for months in summer, thankfully, lasts only a few days here.
You got great answers, I enjoyed reading them, and everyone is right on. Weather -as opposed to Phoenix; no contest! Cool temps, cold sometimes, no smog. Hey, no profiling! Liberal attitudes which you don't find in Phoenix, that's sure. What is my favorite thing about the city? - the culture available; opera, art museums and galleries. There's no opera in Phoenix and damm little culture. I have lived in both places. You got plenty of reasons--- go for it.What do you love about San Francisco?
i love that its VERY liberal and open minded here!! i like that there are "real" people here, meaning that the people here are very "in tune" with their lives and not trying to be something they're not. i like that there's always something going on in this city. you can never be bored. since your moving here from Phoenix its gonna take you some time to get used to the cooler weather here. i personally dont like cool weather which is why im moving back to Los Angeles. but i'll always come back to visit this BEAUTIFUL city!! a lot of "hipsters" live here which is cool. just make sure you have a job lined up before you get here. also try to get a roomate because its really expensive here. even more expensive than it is in LA!!
Love working in downtown SF, the beautiful weather, going to lunch in North Beach little italy at the best restaurants around. After work, going to china town and union sq to have a few drinks and chill. Then going to AT%26amp;T Park where the Giants play, one of the most beautiful ballparks in the the big leagues. sometimes i'll go to the Cliff house near golden gate park, one of the most beautiful spots in the city to take in the breathtaking views. There so much you can do in SF.,What do you love about San Francisco?
The weather-- cool in summer, not too cold in winter. OTOH, anywhere is cooler than that oven called Phoenix.
Downside: high taxes of all kinds and now, they want to add another fee on top of the car registration fee. Non-English speaking ppl (I mean, not even broken English). And these are ppl who have been in America since the 1950s. A city supervisor in a Bay Area city (not in SF) once said that ppl who move to America should learn English and that her city was not obligated to translate all city documents into 4-5 foreign languages. She was booed. I long for the days in the Midwest where in 20 years I never heard the question: "Do you speak English?"
Why do I stay? Work commitments here.
1.) I love to explore parks that have yet to be destroyed and nostalgically long for the days San Francisco didn't suck.
2.) I'm here because I was born here, my immediate family's here/girlfriend is studying here, and my dog's vet (whom I love) is here. If not for the latter 2 (and the undying hope from the former), I'd be gone.
3.) What it used to be, what it could be, its proximity to the Marin coast. OK, I do actually still adore the Richmond district and, a little less so, the Tenderloin. If I could somehow avoid the rest of the city and just focus on those 2, I'd probably very much like SF. And yeah, I do like the weather a lot. :\
The city is now basically a mockery of what it once was... dull, lacking any real culture (sans what yuppies and hipsters "bring"), and way less liberal than people like to claim (only liberal in the PC/patting onself on the back way. Ever seen the South Park SF/"smug" episode? It's not far off). I'd stick to Arizona!
i love the weather (never too hot), the food, the people (very friendly and full of many cultures), the fact that it's so beautiful, it's close to the water, and all in all it's a pretty kickass city :]
I love the shopping out here
one thing that might be a downer is the price of living out here is a little high, but it's worth it
this is a good list of SF cool places:
http://www.vacationopedia.com/sanfrancis鈥?/a>
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