I Am Sorry

Sounds wonderful! Beats hot and humid any day. Shiver or sweat? Easy choice!

 

I hate cold weather too. I'd much rather sweat.

 

Ron Artest signed up for Clutchfans.

 

I heard their baseball team is good.
Their football team used to be good. lol

 

Sucks you had such terrible experiences but I have to say I love SF, having lived there for half a year and visiting for a couple of summers.

Weather, It can be anywhere from cold to warm depending on where your at and what time it is, the city really does have micro climates, but in particular for me it would be misty windy and like 60 degrees at night and in the morning, but during mid day the sky would clear and it would warm up to 75+ degrees to where i'd have to take off my jacket or i'd be sweating. It is gloomy most of the time though and I can see how some find it depressing.

Piss smell, again it depends where your at, if your walking around the downtown area or fisherman's wharf your gonna smell some nasty smells, you have to pick your spots when traveling around the city, like any other city. Same with the homeless people, you can avoid most if you stay out of the daily hot spots.

I do remember walking down a wrong street downtown when trying to find a barber and it was literally a 2 completely full blocks with a 100 homeless people shoulder to shoulder screaming and fighting. I learned my lesson, stayed on the right streets and it was never really a problem after that. But it's true SF is NOT a romantic city to walk around with a date, your just gonna see some nasty stuff sometimes. But the beautiful outweighs it for me.

For 2k you can get a pretty decent apartment, for 4k me and my dad had a good sized, brand new top floor apartment with a huge patio and a beautiful view. Just gotta find good deals.

The train was great for me, never had any issues with the people on it really most where normal people going to work/home. It also didn't take very long either, for me to get to Oakland only took like 15 mins.

And lastly the people there where wonderful to me, I never sensed any problem with racism. I'm white and went to an almost all Filipino/Hispanic school, made plenty of friends of all races. Made friends at basketball parks, churches and occasionally on the Bart and again never sensed an issue. Of course there is going to be racism everywhere, It all ends up with you experience and see. The worst thing I saw was one late night in Berkeley some drunken old war vet was yelling for Asians to go back to Asia on the side walk, but not really a big deal people just ignored him.

It just really all comes down to your personal experiences. You can go to what many consider paradise, but get mugged by random, then suddenly this paradise will look like hell to you from then on. Or vice versa. Just how it is.

 

Is it really that gloomy all the time? Last time I visited San Fran, the sun was out and the weather was nice.
I guess its a bit different from living there.

 

I understand bro, it's all about the area, a couple of blocks can make a worlds difference in a lot of cities.

Lol i'm not sure about this one, the people on the Bart where normal, plenty diverse both ethnically and economically it seemed. Also, like I said I went to an all hispanic/filipino school in the middle of the mission district, wasn't standing with many whites lol.

 

I went to Texans-49ers at Candlestick and 90% of their fans had neck tattoos.

 

Didn't look bad at all when I watched Full House.

Visited there during Hurricane Katrina and it was pleasant.

 

You moved to the wrong city in California. LA is where its at.

 

I went to San Diego and a significant proportion of the population was homeless driving government provided scooters.

 

so what city is your favorite to live in that you listed nono?

 

SF is nice to visit but I can see why someone wouldn't enjoy living there.

 

At least you're not in OKC.

 

The family and people in Full House looked really happy, I don't believe you. Maybe you're just saying this so that there are no more people moving to SF.

 

I agree the weather there is not that good, and their public transport is not that good. I am always surprised when people say how the weather there is so good. Its always chilly. However there is a lot to do there like parks, attractions, etc.