Flimflam
I'm still feeling too spazzy to sit down and write a real, in-depth post, but I saw this amusing article and wanted to post it. It compares New York City and San Francisco. Battle of the Giants.
It's of course kind of silly to play the City vs City game (though it's also inevitable). San Francisco is also a little odd, compared to New York, Chicago, and the other big metropolises of the world. The city itself is really very small, just the tip of the peninsula, and has less than a million inhabitants (compared to NYC's 8 million). You've really got to factor in the entire Bay area before it approaches what some may consider a critical mass, and once you do that, you discover that San Francisco isn't even the most populous city in the Bay area - it's San Jose. Yeah, I know, right? What the heck is San Jose? Who has ever heard of that? I mean, yeah, it's in Silicon Valley, and it's near to all of them Googles and such, but c'mon.
It's of course kind of silly to play the City vs City game (though it's also inevitable). San Francisco is also a little odd, compared to New York, Chicago, and the other big metropolises of the world. The city itself is really very small, just the tip of the peninsula, and has less than a million inhabitants (compared to NYC's 8 million). You've really got to factor in the entire Bay area before it approaches what some may consider a critical mass, and once you do that, you discover that San Francisco isn't even the most populous city in the Bay area - it's San Jose. Yeah, I know, right? What the heck is San Jose? Who has ever heard of that? I mean, yeah, it's in Silicon Valley, and it's near to all of them Googles and such, but c'mon.