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When it comes to the people, I find the most similarities to New Yorkers.
The last company I worked for had offices in Alameda and Walnut Creek, and I was out there quite a bit. Can't say I saw many similarities between New Yorkers and San Franciscans. The latter were very laid back, almost painfully so, while New Yorkers are...well...New Yorkers.
I agree there aren't many similarities between and San Fraciscans and Bostonians either.
I can understand the arguments for Boston, but to me SF feels most like NYC.
I think it might be a function of who you spend your time with, and which neighbourhoods you spend your time in. For myself I spend the most time in North Beach, The Haight and the Mission, and those places remind me of Lower Manhattan more than anywhere else. Obviously San Francisco is smaller and less frenetic, but the feeling on the street there, and the attitudes of the people who live there are similar to those in Lower Manhattan.
The last company I worked for had offices in Alameda and Walnut Creek, and I was out there quite a bit. Can't say I saw many similarities between New Yorkers and San Franciscans. The latter were very laid back, almost painfully so, while New Yorkers are...well...New Yorkers.
I agree there aren't many similarities between and San Fraciscans and Bostonians either.
Well Alameda and Walnut Creek are certainly not San Francisco - they are suburban East Bay CA, Alameda literally being an island with a beach on the bay and feeling like a beachy town (there's really not much office, or anything there except single family homes, some apartments, and a couple cutesy commercial strips) and Walnut Creek being way out there and extremely suburban, surrounded by executive housing and fringe neighborhoods.
Not that San Francisco isn't more laid back than New York, but the difference is thinning by the day and there are "people" similarities outside of the office environment, too.
I always felt like Boston was Lower Manhattan and Philadelphia was Midtown Manhattan.
Grid vs winding streets.
Meh.
Lower Manhattan is the oldest part of the city, with some bars dating back to before the Revolution. There are narrow cobblestone streets and yes a more winding street pattern than the grid you find even a bit further north in the borough. It reminds me a bit of both Boston and Philadelphia in that section for those reasons.
No problem. Here is a more accurate list of 10 most visited cities from 2011:
1. Orlando- 48 million
2. New York City- 47 million
3. Chicago- 45.5 million
4. Anaheim/ Orange County, California- 42.7 million
5. Miami- 38.1 million
6. Las Vegas- 36.5 million
7. Atlanta- 35.4 million
8. Houston- 31 million
9. Philadelphia- 30.3 million
10. San Diego- 29.6 million
Of these three cities?: Boston. As others have noted the two cities (Boston & SF) are not necessarily that similar culturally, but more in terms of being well-educated, affluent, coastal, relatively compact in the city proper, etc. All of these cities share some superficial similarities to some degree, but are also radically divergent in other ways, with their own unique vibes. Difficult to measure NYC against the others, when you could combine the other three and still only have maybe only, what, a 1/3 of New Yorks population (give or take)? It's sheer scale makes it a whole different beast.
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Actually SF is not really like any of these places aside from anecdotal similarities. Boston is not weird enough, or mediterranean enough, or liberal enough, or asian enough, or mexican enough, etc
These are 2 completely different places that don't look or feel anything alike. What they are similar sizes and both are on the water but that's pretty much it. Boston is also more blue collar than SF.
I completely agree. None of them are like San Francisco. Having similar population size doesn't mean much.
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