Comments on: San Francisco

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:11:25 +0000

Having lived here all my life you need to move to SF, I have wanted to move to NY actually so maybe we should house swap for a year?

By: Bart

Bart — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:31:14 +0000

I would love to move to San Francisco. It’s a beautiful city and the people just felt different. I talked to more strangers there just walking around and taking the public transportation during a long weekend than I do for months at a time in NYC.

By: Jimmy Bryant

Jimmy Bryant — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:58:34 +0000

I was out there couple years ago, started going to realtors cause I wanted to stay…. Might go back someday, if I could find a cool place that wasn’t crowded…

By: Tin Man

Tin Man — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:40:33 +0000

I guess I was thinking more about climate — forest fires and droughts and earthquakes. Sometimes it seems like more people live in California than the land can sustain. But I was kind of speaking out of my ass.

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:03:17 +0000

Although I don’t live there, I’m not exactly sure what you meant by environmentally unsustainable, at least in terms of the energy side of things. California has very clean energy production (very little coal and lots of hydro/other renewables), and due to relentless energy efficiency programs over the years, the lowest per capita electricity consumption in the entire US.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/28/energy_efficiency/print.html

By: Thom

Thom — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:02:37 +0000

I heartily endorse the idea of you and Matt moving out here; on the way home after dinner with you the other night, in fact, I kept saying to Jeff all the way home how great that would be.

For myself, I enjoyed living in Boston and in the DC Metro Area well enough, but I actually feel at home here more than anywhere else I’ve lived in my 47 years. The first time I visited San Francisco, in 1986 at the age of 24, I had the feeling that I’d come back to someplace special, to a city that was meant to have been my home. I knew I’d eventually live here, I just didn’t know it would take me so long.

My friend Tom, visiting from DC this weekend, did that drive up the coast from San Diego via LA this past week, and is heading back down to LA via San Simeon and Hearst Castle this coming week. He doesn’t want to go back East now.

Oh, and I just call them “Arizona” and “New Mexico”.