Comments on: ASK BARF: WHY DOES SAN FRANCISCO SUCK?

By: J4y8

J4y8 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:17:20 +0000

Who cares about any of this crap. You can be happy anywhere, if you are happy within yourself. Those that require their surroundings to make them happy or feel great about themselves have issues they need to sort out.

That said, a place definitely has the potential to make you unhappy though. If it infringes on your wellbeing in a major way you will have issues. I’ve lived and developed a great career in SF and the assault on your personal standard of living is intense. This is the case with NY as well. These places are for young people to get ass raped as they start their professions. My advice is to leave once you get said profession off the ground. These cities are not places to live or spend the rest of your life. They may be fun places to explore fashion and vacant self indulgence (which I also personally enjoy) but that’s about it. Move on before you realize your life is a used up train wreck and mockery of youthful indulgent awesomeness.

By: Blown Hankee

Blown Hankee — Wed, 04 May 2011 05:46:34 +0000

I defend your right to live in that overpriced, moldy prison with a bunch of snobs and crazy homeless people. Here’s a short list of U.S. cities that do not suck as hard as SF: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, New Orleans (yes), Atlanta, Boston, Miami, San Diego, Minneapolis, Ann Arbor. Here is a list of cities that suck just as hard as SF: Washington, D.C., Portland, Dallas, Philadelphia. All you have to do is get out and travel the U.S. with an open mind (something SFers cannot do – it’s the definition of “provincial”) to see that my list is accurate. San Franciscans will laugh and insist that their city only compares to Manhattan, and that after that you have to go to London, Paris, and Tokyo. Seriously, they really believe this – that’s how isolated and out of touch they are.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:52:33 +0000

I am a native San Franciscan. SF was the best back in the 80′s.
Normal neighborhood people, great family, friends, your occasional girl next door crush, classy stores, people interested in music and art, but definitely not scenesters. 1990-1994, weirder, but still tolerable. Still able to skateboard the streets, meet occasional normal people, even a nice combination of big and small businesses. 1995 on, it is a golden jail. It is ironic how overpopulated it is yet you feel lonely, everyone worth talking to has fled the city. I finished my studies, yet they mean nothing to SF. My degree actually hurt my chances of getting minimum wage jobs.

Overall: SF sucks!

But, no one has given an alternative. I am thinking of moving, but where?
I heard other cities are like that too, except more boring.

Everyone here hates SF, but what is the alternative? What is the alternative?

Until someone gives a worthwhile alternative, I rest my case in that SF sucks, but not as much as other places.

By: fucksf

fucksf — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:40:05 +0000

racist n hypocritical (mostly white ppl) who try 2 hard 2 b cool to cover up the fact they r dorks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:12:11 +0000

eww!! that is so lame! people outside of new york know that everyone in new york thinks that they are 10′s and really important AND they don’t care about anywhere else!! bogus lesley

By: smackson

smackson — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:31:59 +0000

And by the way, everything the Chief said is right on. Impossible to engage them in any conversation, if and when you manage to do so they’re this odd combination of brain death and arrogance about their provincial tourist trap. The stiffen comment is perfect. And we won’t even get into how racist, segregated, and classist SF is while they pat themselves on the back for how liberal they supposedly are. What a great city to visit for a few days. Miserable to live there because the people are so sucky.

By: smackson

smackson — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:25:22 +0000

As far as the NY comparison goes, the reason SFers bad mouth NY is that they know that their city is nothing more than a provincial refuge for C list failed hipsters. SF is like a bad neighborhood of Queens you’d never go to unless you had to. Or, like a really bad party in Williamsburg except its a whole city and you can’t ever leave it.

By: cjbroder@gmail.com

cjbroder@gmail.com — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:20:50 +0000

OH man is this right on. SF is awful. Pretensious, overrated, segregated club med for white aimless post college rich kids. I was so happy to leave there.

By: Chief Hank E.

Chief Hank E. — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:47:48 +0000

SF sucks because the people there suck. I’m sorry, they do. Go to any other big city and people will ask how you are or make BS polite small talk. SF people are chilly and snobbish. Their automatic reaction is to ignore you, pretend you’re not there, act like they are too busy. If you actually manage to engage them in conversation, you immediately wish they would shut the fuck up again because their opinions are so idiotic and provincial. All they can talk about is how great SF is, as if they’re trying to sell it to you. Express an opinion that is different from theirs – on any topic- and they will stiffen and change the subject, or maybe they will leave the room entirely because they cannot deal with conflict or handle reality. San Franciscans need to pull their heads out.

By: Big T

Big T — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:00:16 +0000

OAKLAND. Takes a fat shit on SF. Best weather in the country, cheap, and if you really do desire any aspect of Frisco at any given time, it’s 5-10 minutes away. I can’t believe people choose to pay $800 for a little room in SF when you can get a large room in the Town for $400. Oh, and the much bedeviled crime rate in Oakland keeps a certain portion of yuppies and pretentious hipster fucks out. NYC rules too. It shits on SF in every way in terms of URBAN LIFE. The only upside SF has is that is indeed closer to real nature