Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1858318" data-attributes="member: 5122">The thing that I fell in love with about San Francisco is the diversity of culture.  On my second visit here, my girlfriend and I went to Chinatown on a weekday morning.  We were the tallest, whitest people within two blocks, and for all intents and purposes we had become illiterate.  It was a remarkable experience ... very difficult to adequately describe.I live in the Sunset.  The things about my neighborhood that stand out: its isolation from the rest of the City; Ocean Beach, and old men every 30 yards with huge surf-fishing poles stuck in the sand; fog so thick you can actually watch it rolling uphill from the Pacific Ocean; the southern edge of Golden Gate Park, which looks so primordial you can't help but expect to see and hear something from Jurassic Park; hills and concrete ... people who had lawns paved them over to have more room for parking; 80 percent Chinese, 10 percent Irish, 5 percent Russian, 5 percent "other" population; the N-Judah light-rail line sparking blue every time it hits a bump; Asian Catholic high school girls; the radio tower up in the heights; the smell of the ocean when the wind comes from the west ...Greatest city in the world.  No question.  If I ever run a Mutants and Masterminds game, it'll be set right here.</blockquote>