Comments on: SF is ‘too hilly to be dull,’ and other curious verdicts

By: 49Giants

49Giants — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:31:57 +0000

It’s always interesting to hear an outsider’s perspective on San Francisco. I’ve always worried that tourists won’t be able to get past the Fisherman’s Wharf/Chinatown/North Beach aspect of SF. I hope, and it looks like, this guy did.

I can’t say the same for all visitors from DC, however.

By: cd

cd — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:29:15 +0000

Sounds like statements John King would agree with – when it comes to architecture. SF isn’t so hot with the building stuff.

I think the people and the hills are a chicken-and-egg scenario. You have to have some sense of humor to scale those hills, right? And to deal with the fog. And the stereotypes.

By: TinMan

TinMan — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:02:34 +0000

San Francisco is “too hilly to be dull.”

I agree, but it’s the city’s people who make it truly interesting, not the landscape.

“San Francisco gives the impression that it is against the law to tear anything down.”

But when it does, San Francisco can do it in style. Tearing down the quake-damaged Embarcadero Freeway to open up the waterfront was probably one of the finest urban development decisions by a major US city in the past fifty years.

“The Bay Area treats its stereotypes the way some places care for their old buildings.”

This is in fact a true statement.

By: wayan

wayan — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:28:11 +0000

Ooo.. I can’t wait to see what y’all think of Sam. His a very different voice in DC but feels he would not be that out of place in SF:

“the Green Party candidate for San Francisco mayor got 47% the last time. I’ve never lived in a place where 47% of the people agreed with me on something that important and different.”