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| quote: | Originally posted by lex400sc
of course it's not going to be like the days of the dotcom boom where 30 millionaires were being made EVERY DAY, lines to every club were going around two sides of every block and everyone including club promoters are throwing money around like it's going out of style, but if you took the time to actually go out, the city is making a huge comeback from it's 01-04 lull. |
i do take the time to go out and i'm not impressed. yes the city is good, but its not spectacular and it certainly has nothing on cities like LA, NYC, or Miami. the stories i hear about from the dotcom era are crazy but when the bubble burst the law enforcement cracked down on the nightlife, hard, too hard. its less than it was before the dotcoms came to town. its making a comeback to which i give you a ... call me when it isnt "coming" back but when its back
one thing it does do well is create a sense of community, people fall in love with it and will defend the city to their death which usually causes them to overlook or not admit the shortfalls. its that smug pride everyone talks about
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dirty city? what about sf is dirty? sf's chinatown is cleaner than any other i've been to in america, the tap water rates as the cleanest in the nation, there is no air pollution, the city's buses are all zero emissions vehicles and the only time you see litter on the streets is when the wind knocks over a garbage bin on garbage day. the only thing dirty about sf is the tenderloin, which is the one district filled with homeless crackheads, but you have to go out of you way to find that district if you want to see dirty. sf's biggest industry for tax revenue is tourism and because of that, most of the resources go into city beautification. |
all cities are filthy, LA is filthy, NYC is filthy and SF is no exception. its a city, its dirty
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
You didn't venture out to the Love Parade this year, did you? |
oh whatever, that was overrated too. in the past few months there have been festivals and parades practically every other weekend and its been great to have things like that especially with such frequency, but they're all overrated. most of them are nothing but an excuse for commercialism
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