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Location: Baghdad by the Bay (San Francisco, California)
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Originally Posted by Pine to Vine
As someone who spent many years of my life in Houston, the fact that you would prefer to call Houston home over Paris gives me considerable insight into your seemingly obsessive preference for SF over NYC. Special thanks for this enlightening post.
I spent over half my life in Houston. I'll agree it's an okay place to live for raising families and putting down roots, but as someone who loves cities and city life, Houston is among the least desirable places to live in the US to me. It is an odd combination of nearly all the drawbacks of city life with very few of the benefits.
Location: Watching half my country turn into Gilead
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Originally Posted by thedirtypirate
To some degree I can see the argument that the average citizen of SF does in fact lead a slightly higher QOL. They could have better jobs on the average, bigger house, more disposable income, etc.. However, that doesn't mean that SF is automatically a better city. The more time I spend in cities, I realize that the more interesting parts of the cities are usually around the rough edges. NYC's rough edges in particular are just so fascinating to me. Also the neverending-ness of it all really seperates the two cities for me. I really want to go to a show at the Palace of Fine Arts, and I will one day. The friends I have out there love SF and North California, as I think most people would. I think the average American would pick SF over NYC, but to city dwellers like myself and most of us on here, NYC is hard to top if someone offered you a job with good compensation.
As for saying one city is more "cultural" than the other is an interesting question, and really comes down to what you are looking for. As the science ficition genre has taught us (and the Nazi's), a homogeneous population and society is not something we should strive to becoming. In that sense, I prefer the diversity of races and professions in NYC more than a city like SF that is so heavily dominated by a select few industries.
SF's chokehold on the tech industry is beginning to fade as more of the rest of the world is gaining internet access. The tech industry domestically is spreading across a ton of cities, with startups trying to make their cities the next bay area. Just was reading an article about how in India, they are creating a massive tech industry with a lot of workers not being able to acquire US Visas and opting to start their own companies.
While a high QOL is important it is somewhat disappointing how expensive cost of living has become in both places. Would Bob Sagat and the Olson twins been priced out of their house considering they relied on a single income to support a whole family?
Lol at the Full House reference. Great post--SF isn't as diverse as Montclair makes it seem, and it's certainly culturally inferior to NYC.
Location: Watching half my country turn into Gilead
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Originally Posted by 18Montclair
Yawns. What the hell is a Prince William next to a Mark Zuckerberg? Answer: Not much.
Oh, and Prince William takes the Bay with him everywhere boo.
I'll take the cultured royal over the socially awkward nerd, every time.
Lol at the iPhone representing the Bay--you're reaching on that one. It's manufactured primarily in Asia--by that logic, does Prince William take China with him everywhere too?
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