View of San Francisco from a New Yorker's eyes (San Jose: condos, houses)

[dculross]

Originally Posted by jaypee

And yet you posted this gem: //www.city-data.com/forum/san-b...eno-scary.html


awww ... was that bad highway scarewy to you?

Lol!!

[rkwalton]

Originally Posted by clongirl

I won't bother with all the other silly assessments since it's one man's opinion.... but, FYI...we don't really have Puerto Rican or Trinidad food because we're on the OTHER coast. We have Mexican, Honduran, El Salvadorean, Filipino, all variants of Asian, Burmese, Russian, Indian, Pakistani, Pacific Islanders/Samoans/Guamanians etc.

Yeah, some are too daff to get that. As a Californian, when I moved to NYC I didn't expect tons of Mexican restaurants. I did expect a ton of Latin influences from other Spanish-speaking countries and that's what I got.

Some New Yorkers are in such a rush to play this NYC is best b.s. that they come off as really silly. This is yet another example.

Love that someone found this:

Originally Posted by garfieldlover

I recently drove from san francisco to yosemite and i was scared to death of driving alongside a mountain. I heard you increase elevaton by driving on 80 , but is it a scary ride? As scary as pacific coast? Can smeone gve me an idea ow scary of a drive it is?

Thanks

Oh, and we're not tough?

Whatever.

[Natural510]

I personally love New York, but one stereotype about most New Yorkers which holds true is "talkin loud, sayin nuthin".

[evergraystate]

Originally Posted by Nineties Flava

Then go back to New York and stop complaining about SF not being exactly like New York.

Typical butt hurt response.

[vdy1985]

lol. I could never live in NYC with all those wannabe badass in your face types. So annoying. Take a damn chill pill and lower your freaking blood pressure. Great place to visit though.

[gone down south]

Californians aren't 'soft', they're just more laid back. Took me a long time to stop getting annoyed at the relaxed attitudes here, now I can appreciate the cultural differences between East and West Coasters. It's not better or worse, it's just a different way of approaching the world.

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by gone down south

Californians aren't 'soft', they're just more laid back. Took me a long time to stop getting annoyed at the relaxed attitudes here, now I can appreciate the cultural differences between East and West Coasters. It's not better or worse, it's just a different way of approaching the world.

Californians have a greater tolerance for douchebaggery, but however long one's fuse may be, there is an explosive something-or-other at the end that ought not be lit. If NYers can be characterized as loud and obnoxious, people on the west coast can be called more passive-aggressive. We let things generally fly, up to a point.

[Radical347]

Originally Posted by bigdumbgod

If NYers can be characterized as loud and obnoxious, people on the west coast can be called more passive-aggressive. We let things generally fly, up to a point.

^^^this.

I think most of the replies in this topic back up the OP's #2, though.

[BayDude]

On the racist Asians in SF thing the OP mentioned there is some truth to that.

I remember standing in line in Starbucks and a maybe late 20's asian woman literally went out of her way to move next to the other person, a raggedy homeless guy, just to apparently avoid me (and for no apparent reason?). Kinda like the old "purse clutch" effect. People go into strange avoidance behaviors or just ignore you in SF. I don't experience this in Oakland.

And yes it does seem as if many Asians in SF "suck up" to white people. They only hang out with white or asian people or "superficially" hang out with blacks or hispanics. Overall its fairly bizarre and thankfully mostly restricted to SF.

SF is not diverse or tolerant as a city really. I don't get where people get this idea. Which is why I wrote my other thread on where the real diversity lies (Oakland).

[dmode]

Originally Posted by BayDude

SF is not diverse or tolerant as a city really. I don't get where people get this idea. Which is why I wrote my other thread on where the real diversity lies (Oakland).

Just to clarify, by "not diverse", you really mean less black people, right? You keep harping on this but you should write a footnote with this disclaimer. I certainly don't think less of ONE race/ethnicity makes a place less diverse. In that sense the entire peninsula from SF to San Jose can be classified as "not diverse or tolerant". Last time I checked SF is divided into 48% white, 33% Asians, 15% Latino, 6% AAs. Seems to be a pretty diverse place to me. Also remember that Asians are a HUGE group and represent a continent of over 3bn people. They will include Southeast Asians, East Asians, South Asians, Arabs and may be Persians as well. Oakland will simply have more AAs and less whites and Asians (again a non monolithic groups).

Also, please don't quote anecdotal experience to prove "SF is not tolerant". Don't tell me you have never heard of black-on-Asian racism - bullying, making fun of Asian eyes, the whole Korea town episode. Does that mean Oakland is racist?