What City Reminds You Of San Francisco? (Los Angeles, Fremont: live in, homeless)

[jeevcy]

Pune, India

[Taboo2]

Italy.. Lots of places in italy do.

[mr bolo]

San Francisco kind of reminds me of a small version of NEW YORK CITY

SF is the closest thing to little NYC on the west coast

[redwoodlvr]

Originally Posted by Taboo2

Italy.. Lots of places in italy do.

I agree. Perhaps it's the architecture, hills and diverse neighborhoods within each city that is similar. For me, it was mostly the energy that was very similar.

[Baron von Costume]

I would say it reminds me a lot of Seattle.

After a garbage truck exploded and spread litter and urine around.

[Bad Penny]

wow I can't believe nobody has mentioned Lisbon, Portugal.

[LAPalms]

There's a section on Los Angeles called San Pedro, very hilly sections in the harbor area. It looks much like sections of our beautiful Northern Cousin. Many a shoot has taken place there.

[Goodjules]

Originally Posted by creepsinc

I would like to second Pittsburgh. And the smug "I'm leaving" response is one of the reasons I got sick of living in SF. Then Seattle. I'm so glad to be away from the West Coast after ten years. Yes, Pittsburgh is the closest to SF you can find back East. LOTS of hills, STEEP streets, twice as many sets of steps, and very, very European. Eastern European, to be exact. Imagine a poor man's San Francisco in the Appalachians, with deer and wild turkeys running around (seriously, deer crossing signs and regular sightings down the street in my inner-city neighborhood). Pittsburgh is America's best kept secret, by far. By the way, I just got under contract for a sparkling, immaculate Craftsman bungalow, built in 1926, on a hill with a view of the city and one of our 3 rivers (the Ohio in this case). Final price after negotiations? $52,500. No, I didn't forget a zero.

Pittsburgh and Seattle.

I'm planning to move to Pittsburgh in a few years when my youngest is off to college. I can buy a great old victorian for way, way less than in SF. I like the hills and there is a pretty cool art scene. I'm a native San Franciscan now living on the Peninsula.

[EclecticBohemian]

It depends on what you mean by "remind you of". I did a 21-month stint in Seattle and initially I thought that it reminded me of SF. However, it took very little time to squash that notion. There are some neighborhoods (Fremont, Capitol Hill) that kind of have an eclectic feel but they are devoid of the social energy that seems to pervade SF neighborhoods. I honestly don't think (personal opinion) that Seattlites are as liberal as they project. I think it is more that they are conflict averse which causes them not to really speak their minds.

Having said that, Seattle is VERY beautiful, and has some very beautiful neighborhoods in their own right but you will never get that bohemian feel that you get in SF. I also think Seattle has a very introverted culture (nothing wrong with that, just different) and it does not easily welcome strangers they way that SF seems to do.

Now for my recommendation of a city like SF, I would say Barcelona, Spain (except weather) and maybe Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[Happy Cells]

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