We’re totally competing now! I should take some pictures. The Mission is I guess one of the two most popular SF districts. It’s like Hipster Central, has a few venues for shows, it alternates between fashionable and “Wow, is that actually what fashion is like these days?” The other biggie is Haight/Ashbury, home of burned out hippies, people who wish they were hippies, and people who like drinking at bars. It mostly smells like marijuana, though. As far as sidewalks… the sidewalks aren’t too bad, but the roads? Biking to work is sometimes kind of like navigating a minefield. I should probably get my shocks adjusted. Top that!
Ugh, this isn’t fair, thinking while hungover makes my brain hurt. And you’re way more verbose than me, too. Let’s see…in my city, if the sidewalk in front of your house breaks, the government won’t fix it, you have to do so yourself (I’m talking about buildings, houses, shops, offices, anything). If the street gets potholes, the government won’t fix it either, because they’re too busy doing who knows what. So you end up with different kinds of tiles in front of every different building, and things like this, this and this. Also, in my part of town, the streets are mostly made very haphazardly with cobblestones, so I can’t really bike on them, which is beyond annoying. My neighborhood sounds like a mixture between the 2 you mentioned: lots of very hip bars and venues, loft buildings and designer stores, but then lots of abandoned houses with people living in them (called “casas tomadas”), people drinking/doing drugs in the streets, and brothells that “specialize” in transvestites. Anyway, I don’t know who wins, I think I’ve just used up all my brain energy for the day.
