More on SF:

There aren’t any fat people in SF. In the South everyone is fat. At home all women are on a diet that isn’t working. Here everyone is obsessed with fitness, and they actually seem to stick to it. I have theories about why that is so.

No one is actually from SF. It is a city of foreigners, people that moved here for a tech job or because they were misfits back home. The only thing permanent in SF is the land it sits on.

They speak about the city as if it were its own entity. The city of SF itself is often a topic of conversation aside from the people, the buildings or the weather. They talk of it with a sense of reverence even. Can a city be a thing in its own right??

SF is a city of acceptance and tolerance…..which is a remarkable achievement. The bums are friendly and the gays, the techies, and the suits all pass each other in the streets with a minimum of disaffection. The strong anti-establishment population remains so without being hateful. However, the line between tolerance and ambivalence is dangerously thin.

It is great to be single in SF because there are lots of other singles. But I’ve noticed SF tends to keep you single too. Because it is a city of foreigners, it is a city of searchers; everyone came here looking for something better.

I applaud better, but it is a symptom of my generation that we don’t know better when we have it….because we’re always looking for something better. And so these people remain single and thin and preoccupied, overworked and forever striving….stuck between the passions of youth and the responsibilities of adulthood…unable to commit fully to either.

SF is proud of its achievements and searching and acceptance, but also dissatisfied with it. It is a little spiritually bankrupt too….a product of the people living here….a reflection of the preoccupations of my generation.

(Bear in mind that I am a part of my generation and so only see the things that reinforce my own neuroses. SF is truly a great city and contains a little of pretty much whatever you’re looking for. I just see what I want I suppose.)

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