FundamentallySound Blog

I really have to work to readjust to being in San Francisco. In some ways it's great, there are so many things that I love about this place. Here are a few:
1. Tasty and cheap burritos!
2. OK to almost good public transportation, within the city.
3. Huge number of highly creative people per capita.
4. Three international airports that are very easy to reach, so it's easy to escape if I need to. If Bush wins in November, I'll probably be taking advantage of this option!
5. Some great bars with long happy hours.
6. Cool tech. companies, still making some pretty interesting and cutting-edge software.
7. Fog.
8. It's a small city where the odds are actually in your favor of that cute guy on the train also being into guys. Hey!
9. Lots of writers live here, which means there are some nice cafes populated with highly self-obsessed people. I seem to fit right in.

And these are the negatives:
1. A pervasive sense of malaise and laziness (which could also be on my good list, on some days).
2. There's no quality press about the arts and music.
3. A general inability to be serious about anything (again, this could also almost be on my good list).
4. Independent music and art venues are totally underfunded and stressed.
5. The artistic atmosphere is a little too hermetically sealed.
6. The men are flakes. Well, there are a couple exceptions, and men are pretty stupid creatures in general, but what is it about San Francisco? Or is it just a California thing? I don't get it.
7. It's a small city.

I might still have my rose-colored glasses on, but this is the way it seems to me now. Give me a few months, and the negatives will probably outnumber the positives.