I’m about to leave SF.
I’ve enjoyed my month here. I met lots of nice, if a little strange, people. The city is full of stuff to indulge every hobby/fetish I’d ever like to take up. The weather has been phenomenal.
It has been a good month personally. I never realized how stable and un-neurotic I am compared to many people that can nonetheless lead functioning lives. Neurotic can be interesting, but also emotionally draining to be around.
There is a danger in being a functioning neurotic, more so than if you were non-functioning. If you are a sinking ship you’ll try to plug the leak, but if your life is more or less working (sometimes less than more) you will continue as you are, always attracting other functioning neurotics, stumbling through a string dysfunctional relationships that reinforce and soothe your issues, but do not help deal with them.
Not that I am always for dealing with your issues. Skeletons go in the closet because no one wants to sleep with skeletons in the bed.
I stated previously that Southerners are relatively boring and homogeneous compared to the people in SF. That is still true, but isn’t necessarily a negative. You could also say the South is less neurotic, more well-adjusted.
Actually, people from both places are reading this. I don’t wish to imply that SF folk are all neurotic, or that one must be neurotic to be interesting.
Neither do I wish to imply that Southerners are all well adjusted. They aren’t. However, the veneer of normalcy is very important in the South. We generally don’t like change, foreigners or people that want to be different.
Maybe people out here aren’t more neurotic….maybe they just express it more because it is allowed. Almost everything is allowed.
What will I miss most about San Francisco? The coffee.
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