Locals and Tourists #3 (GTWA #4): San Francisco (by Eric Fischer)
“Blue pictures are by locals. Red pictures are by tourists. Yellow pictures might be by either.” Fascinating.
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Bay Bridge terminus.
Valencia Street
Infinity.
Once, by German filmmaker Wim Wenders.
Union Square love.
So You're Moving to San Francisco
I’ve lived in SF for nearly 10 years now, and overall feel good about the city. However, Alex Payne brings up several good points here, the most emblematic of which is:
I think there’s something disturbing and solipsistic and fundamentally broken about a place that seems to value a different way of life over better quality of life. It is this that I object to most strenuously about San Francisco.
This is a danger whenever the appearance or professing of an idea is valued more than that idea’s implied action (which, of course, takes work). I agree that in SF, humanistic and progressive values are more often lip-serviced than really lived. Words may be pretty, but it’s the way you handled that stranger on the street that actually matters.
