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My parents to Ivy League universities for graduate school Columbia and Harvard and they are not pretentious and teach at University of Kentucky and now Vanderbilt University but they are really down to earth. NYC is not as pretentious as people make it out to be. Boston and SF probably are the most pretentious but a lot of them are just elitist wannabes and not actually from elite universities like Harvard and Stanford.
Now we know why you made the life decision to move to Nashville.
Seattle. The locals already knew it what a nice place to live. The transplants are making it very well known. This might have been a pretentious thing to say. Also generalizing. Either way Seattle to me is very pretentious
That's a little disappointing. I agree with most of your list though-I've been to most of the other cities.
Yeah, Denver and Minneapolis maybe 10 years ago I wouldn't say that but recently visiting both cities has given me a different vibe. Of course it's a bit subjective and just based on personal experience.
I think you are confusing me with someone else. What is it you think I originally said? SF is and always has been unique regardless of it's status as a "bedroom community" or not.
How is SF "less" because some of it's residents work in the Silicon Valley in your opinion?
That would also be false. SF is not a "bedroom community", has never been a "bedroom community" and, likely, never will be.
The new tech residents of SF that work in Silicon Valley only adds to the unique nature of SF.
SF still has lots of jobs, small businesses, big corporations, and an upper-resident-class that doesn't even have to work....and a tourism industry.
Big tourist towns are rarely "bedroom communities" and if they are both "tourist towns" and "bedroom communities" as the case may be in some other California coastal cities, the tourism part makes them more interesting than simply being a "bedroom community".
SF is full of snobs and always had a good share of snobs even when it was "affordable" back in the 60's and 70's. See link on the "Old" (SF) Family Snob and the (general) San Francisco snob
Specifically where you said that the tech workers add to the unique nature of SF. I don't agree with that. It makes it more monocultural if anything. And as far as making it less of a unique city- well yeah it does, when you have a city that once hosted a variety of racial and socioeconomic demographics being replaced by a much narrower demographic. One small example: my friend in SF mentioned how straight married couples with children are moving into the Castro and complaining about the nightlife being too noisy. They basically want it to be just like the affluent suburb they grew up in but "vibrant" and "walkable" where they can shop at the organic farmers market at sip their $7 latte. To me, that's pretentious. And bland.
Specifically where you said that the tech workers add to the unique nature of SF. I don't agree with that. It makes it more monocultural if anything. And as far as making it less of a unique city- well yeah it does, when you have a city that once hosted a variety of racial and socioeconomic demographics being replaced by a much narrower demographic. One small example: my friend in SF mentioned how straight married couples with children are moving into the Castro and complaining about the nightlife being too noisy. They basically want it to be just like the affluent suburb they grew up in but "vibrant" and "walkable" where they can shop at the organic farmers market at sip their $7 latte. To me, that's pretentious. And bland.
I think you are generalizing tech workers, so they are all they same?
When the Castro was primarily Irish Catholic working class it was a monocultural community and people thought it was bland. This was before it became a Gay Ghetto in the 70's, 80's and 90's.
What's wrong with wanting to shop at organic farmers markets and drink lattes, not sure how that is pretentious. Before Starbucks, back in the day, SF was one of few cities in America that had lots of cafes serving expressos and lattes, it was one of the charms of SF; you could find cafes that served expressos, lattes while most cites didn't have such cafes, or not nearly as many as SF.
I think you are generalizing tech workers, so they are all they same?
When the Castro was primarily Irish Catholic working class it was a monocultural community and people thought it was bland. This was before it became a Gay Ghetto in the 70's, 80's and 90's.
What's wrong with wanting to shop at organic farmers markets and drink lattes, not sure how that is pretentious. Before Starbucks, back in the day, SF was one of few cities in America that had lots of cafes serving expressos and lattes, it was one of the charms of SF; you could find cafes that served expressos, lattes while most cites didn't have such cafes, or not nearly as many as SF.
Tech workers are overwhelmingly white or Asian straight males. If you'd like me to provide links about that and covert racism/sexism in SV/SF I'm more than happy to.
San Francisco is the most pretentious city in the country.
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