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Agreed, the beaches in NorCal are very scenic and nice to look at but not user friendly at all. The water is freezing cold year round and it's never warm enough to swim in. That's on top of the very dangerous rip currents too. Then of course the weather itself sucks as well; cold, windy, foggy, and rarely makes it out of the 60's, sometimes it won't even make it out of the 50's in the middle of summer. I'd take the beaches around Chicago and the summer weather there any day over the coast here in Northern CA.
Have you ever been to Santa Cruz in the summer? The beach is packed and there are always people in the water. Plus Norcal has the best surfing in the world....Mavericks anyone???
Have you ever been to Santa Cruz in the summer? The beach is packed and there are always people in the water. Plus Norcal has the best surfing in the world....Mavericks anyone???
Yes and that is the ONE place in NorCal where the weather is pretty good as it faces south and avoids much of the cold fog. Most of the people in the water seem to be kids or adults who don't venture in past their waste. That water doesn't even break 60, anything under 66/67 is too cold for me.
Mavericks is for a pretty small percentage of surfers than can handle those waves, the vast majority of people would die if they attempted to go out into that water. Either way most of the people who go to the beach don't surf.
I love the beaches in SF; very scenic and serene. Ocean Beach has some proper dunes like you see back in the Northeast, as well. The Sutro Bath House ruins and the whole area around the Cliff House are one of my favorite areas of SF to sit and draw, write, read, and just generally relax and unwind.
In Chicago, you do get those super-hot summers where you really DO need to take a dip; not so much in SF. I did go swimming in SF a few times; it's cold but your body gets used to it... those Scandanavian genes don't hurt for it, either!
Most of the people I got to taking about the West Coast with when I was in NYC, as well as my friends who live there, have a pretty positive opinion of SF. You regularly hear comments like, "if I were going to move to the West Coast, I'd pick San Francisco."
I can almost guarantee that you spent your time in the gentrified areas. For example I can almost bet you never asked in Brooklyn outside of the relatively few white liberal areas. Go to ungentrified NY and ask them what they think of "SF values".
PS did you even step foot outside of Manhattan (except for the airport of course) when you were here?
People here go into the ocean. What a strange notion that the water is 'too cold'---I dont even think about that when I go to my beach house at Stinson.
I can almost guarantee that you spent your time in the gentrified areas. For example I can almost bet you never asked in Brooklyn outside of the relatively few white liberal areas. Go to ungentrified NY and ask them what they think of "SF values".
PS did you even step foot outside of Manhattan (except for the airport of course) when you were here?
I can almost guarantee that you spent your time in the gentrified areas. For example I can almost bet you never asked in Brooklyn outside of the relatively few white liberal areas. Go to ungentrified NY and ask them what they think of "SF values".
PS did you even step foot outside of Manhattan (except for the airport of course) when you were here?
Oh, of course I didn't. I'm actually afraid of going anywhere where I can't find a Whole Foods. If I don't have my daily dose of quinoa, I start to wilt.
Oh, of course I didn't. I'm actually afraid of going anywhere where I can't find a Whole Foods. If I don't have my daily dose of quinoa, I start to wilt.
Try ordering on-line with Traders Joe's. Of course, it comes only in colonic form and must be administered by a pranic healer, per SF sharia law. It pairs well with Shiraz.
People here go into the ocean. What a strange notion that the water is 'too cold'---I dont even think about that when I go to my beach house at Stinson.
a strange notion? Really? I have yet to meet many people than can handle the cold a*s water here. It's a strange notion than u think most people actually enjoy 55 degree water without a WETSUIT especially when that can give you hypothermia fairly quickly.
Me and my friends went to Montara beach last 4th Of July weekend and had a contest who could stay in thE water the longest, nobody lasted more than 2 minutes and we were all natives. Please, Southern CA is barely warm enough for many people to swim in, Northern CA is frigid in comparison and not suitable for swimming for 98% of the population. Even if you can brave the bone chilling water of Stinston, good luck with the Great White sightings... Anyone who thinks NorCal has anything that resembles a traditional beach scene is delusional imo save Santa Cruz and even then the water is never breaking 60 deg, NorCal is a joke compared to SoCal and the East Coast for a REAL beach scene.
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