Turns out

I was in a Haight Street cafe this week, sitting near a girl who was issuing all the usual complaints to the friends visiting her from Ohio.

“San Francisco and Los Angeles hate each other.  But you can tell why, LA is a place with bad air, the people are all into themselves, and everyone drives everywhere.  Of course, I’ve never been there.”

If I were the crazy boundary-breaking self in my head, I would explain how it really is.  But I would probably also be wrong.

generic1:

doublejack:

jimrock:

sexpigeon:

Nobody actually likes San Francisco. It is never more than a pricey stand-in for some other place preferred.

I woke up some minutes ago and found myself feverishly rethinking this. It feels like a cruel and unfair thing to say, now, albeit not an untrue one. There is something almost aristocratic about the particular unhappiness that pervades here. All this splendor and what do you do? You sigh.

One year into living here I realized that only a person from Ohio could think it’s cool to live here. Still into living here but only in the same way that I am into finishing an overly large meal at a steakhouse that all my friends say I can’t finish.

Complete and utter bollocks.

Remix:

“Look, the city is not for everyone. There are a lot of downsides. But I am so fucking tired of hearing yuppies whine about how they just can’t make it here any more. Go. Please. Quit whining and just go. God, stop talking about it and move. Jesus. You are boring the fuck out of me.”

Source: sexpigeon

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  1. jonathanlally reblogged this from acordova
  2. acordova reblogged this from generic1 and added:
    Get out of my city. * General “you,” not Mr. generic1 ♥
  3. tenderloingeographicsociety reblogged this from generic1 and added:
    I was in a Haight Street cafe this week, sitting near a girl who was issuing all the usual complaints to the friends...
  4. fwarg reblogged this from generic1 and added:
    I grew up here, in San Francisco and no, I’m not a hipster. I love this city with every fiber of my being, I love the...
  5. sixagon reblogged this from generic1 and added:
    Try living in central Florida for 21 years and then tell me how much you hate San Francisco.
  6. generic1 reblogged this from doublejack
  7. felistella reblogged this from coyotesqrl and added:
    I’d move there tomorrow if I could, and it wouldn’t be soon enough.
  8. coyotesqrl reblogged this from doublejack and added:
    I lived in SF for a year and around the Bay Area for a few more. If the weather were more to my liking (hot and sunny) I...
  9. sexpigeon posted this