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As Montclair said, neither. If it was just between the two grouped cities, I would say LA/SD by a longshot. Seattle and Portland are too "white" in vibe compared to SF.
The city of San Francisco is kind of a mesh between both regions when it comes to topography and climate IMO. This doesn't apply to the entire MSA because of micro climates and foilage.
Culturally San Francisco is more like LA/SD by a long shot, and if you add the greater Bay Area to the equation it is no contest.
Next time OP don't add neither to your poll because it gives people an easy way out.
As Montclair said, neither. If it was just between the two grouped cities, I would say LA/SD by a longshot. Seattle and Portland are too "white" in vibe compared to SF.
That's the problem with SF. It's always defined from a wealthy white person's perspective in terms of mainstream media exposure. Seattle and Portland are defined from white perspectives too, although understandably because Portland and Seattle are much whiter in demographic proportion than SF. Stereotypically, when people think of SF, they think of the homeless in Golden Gate Park, hippies, gay people and rich liberal pretentious fart sniffers. All of these groups exist pretty much solely in SF's white population which is not even the overwhelming majority of the city. Because of this, people forget that SF is a large city in California with all the good, bad and in-between things that come with California cities and really is not all that similar to Seattle or Portland.
?? There is a possibility that people thing SF is too difficult to compare to SoCal or PacNW because it's so different from either.
There are elements that might remind a visitor that SF is in CA, but there are certainly similarities to Seattle and Portland. None of these similarities to either region mean that SF's vibe is more similar to another region. SF is too unique and it's very rare that people directly compare it to anywhere else in the country.
I voted "neither" as well.
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