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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:11 PM
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**Dial up warning** Do you know what I love about San Francisco?
EVERYTHING! It's one of my favorite cities in the world...
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:13 PM
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1. Its not a bad place...
spendy, but thats to be expected...been there only once...candlestick park for a concert, back in 03...spent most of the morning walking around haight/ash streets...
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:18 PM
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4. What I usually gets most people that have never been, is...
...is how much they spend on parking. I just tell them for future reference, if you are going there for three or four days, stay at the Clarion by the SF airport, and walk to the BART station. You can get everywhere you need to in downtown San Francisco by walking and using the trolleys.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:19 PM
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7. nah
Chicago imo was really a PITA for parking...San Fran was pretty...easy in my book...it did cost a bit to get in through the Bay Bridge...8 bucks or so...I enjoyed San Fran, the piers were awesome....
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sfdiva Donating Member (188 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 03:26 PM
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29. Its 4 bucks :P NAH! N/T
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TommyO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 10:54 AM
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18. Thanks for the hint about the Clarion
I'm planning a trip out there next year and it sounds like a great way to keep hotel costs down, and experience BART at the same time! Being a train geek, I've always liked the look of the BART trains.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:17 PM
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2. sing along with me
"when the lights
go down
in the city
and the sun shines on the bay
ooh I wanna be there-air-ee-air ..."

Nice pictures.
Even though I am sure I would hate Frisco.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 10:11 AM
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17. You'd hate it, plus it might get expensive for YOU if you did visit
Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco," which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars. - Norton I, Emperor of the United States



:)
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:18 PM
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3. It's one of my favorites, too!
Thanks for the gorgeous pictues!
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:20 PM
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8. All but the first one were taken from the roof of the B of A building.
nt
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:18 PM
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5. Are you on the roof of the BofA building?
???
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:24 PM
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10. Yes, see if you can guess from this picture I shot today...
...where I am right now.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 11:03 AM
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19. Where is that? It certainly doesn't look like Northern California..
...:shrug:
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-12-06 03:47 AM
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37. Fiji?
?
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mark414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:19 PM
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6. christ i miss that city
i spent 3 months in that city earlier this year and had the best times...i was homeless the entire time but i spent all my days going over the entire city, meeting everyone, making great friends...it was a short time but i have so many good memories...i miss it so much
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 05:50 AM
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14. Only city in the world I could comfortably live in.
Used to live in the Sunset. I guess there's just no explaining it to anyone who hasn't spent some time there.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 01:39 PM
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24. I miss it too. I grew up in a Bay Area burb and lived in SF as a
young, footloose and fancy free woman.

Such an amazing place to spend some time. *sigh*
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:21 PM
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9. I did the major part of my growing up in San Jose.......
A trip to San Francisco (We called it The City, BTW) was a huge treat!

I loved it ..........

Great pics!

I always said I would live there after the Big One...

Alas.........probably won't happen now.......

Thanks for the memories, though.......:hug:
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:28 PM
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11. Some of my funniest memories as a kid...
...were when our dad would take us up there to see our Aunt and Uncle.

He would always get lost, even though he had been there several times.

Funny what you can remember from a couple hundred years ago isn't it?
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 11:30 PM
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12. Haha!
Hey! I'm not that old, you know!

:rofl:
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AussieDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 05:24 AM
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13. It's one of my favorites too - along with New York City
SF is fabulous - I'll be there in a couple of weeks......
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Efilroft Sul Donating Member (827 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 09:44 AM
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15. My wife and I absolutely adore San Francisco.
For us, it ranks up there with Rome, Venice, and London. We both felt so free and alive in all those cities, but it was in SF that we felt the most free and alive. If I had to complain about SF in any way, however, it would be because 1) restaurants all seem to close just after 9 p.m., 2) too many homeless need help, and 3) its high cost of living. Nonetheless, if we both found the right jobs, I think we'd move there in a heartbeat.

Long live San Francisco.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 09:53 AM
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16. LOVE the place
Spent four days there about 15 years ago and still cherish the fond memories. Some of the nicest people on the PLANET there. Yeah, THOSE godless heathens--commie libruls--Sodom and Gomorrah-ites--the kindest, friendliest, most intelligent folks in the world. I had a philosophical conversation with a cabbie, fer chrissakes!
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 11:22 AM
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20. Rice-a-Roni ...
and the gay bars are fucking awesome!
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 12:11 PM
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21. My only complaint: Parking
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 12:21 PM
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22. I was born and raised in San Francisco.
Whatever good and bad there is to say about her, she'll always be home to me.
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MsKandice01 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 12:40 PM
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23. I'm from So. Cali but have lived in San Jose for 3 years...
And I'm thinking I might learn to like San Francisco IF I DIDN'T GET LOST EVERYTIME I WENT THERE!! The streets are absolutely horrendous! I'm not used all the wind and clouds either. I guess I need to spend a weekend there in a hotel somewhere and just hang out for a while to really learn to enjoy the city. I'm usually so stressed out about getting lost, I don't get to relax and take it all in.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 01:46 PM
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25. sigh -- i don't live in the city proper any more --
i live in oakland.

but i LOVE san francisco.

in gay speak -- Fabulous!
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 01:57 PM
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26. We have lived in SF for two years now.
Hated it the first year, loving it now. People drive like their hair is on fire but it's so beautiful here I hardly notice anymore.
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pdx_prog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 03:11 PM
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27. I love Frisco....
Mark Twain said the coldest winter he had ever spent was one summer in San Franciso...:)
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sfdiva Donating Member (188 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 03:25 PM
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28. I've lived here for a year and a half I love it!
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malmapus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 05:37 PM
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30. Spent the best years of my life in San Francisco
Edited on Wed Oct-11-06 05:43 PM by malmapus
God I miss that place, lived there 5 years. Nothing but fond memories for the most part, was a fun time of my life for sure.


EDIT: I MISS MUNI!!!!! $35 was all I spent on transportation for a month :cry:
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malmapus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 05:37 PM
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31. Dang, how did that happen
Edited on Wed Oct-11-06 05:42 PM by malmapus
somehow got a double post
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 05:40 PM
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32. Ahhhh my city!!!
Only to be bested by Berkeley!

It feels good to be a bay arean
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 05:46 PM
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33. you were there on a classically clear day & yes i agree i love the city...
:hi:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 06:22 PM
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34. what's not to love? It's astonishingly beautiful
except that we can't afford to live there.... :cry:


those photos look like our vacation photos from last year!
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retread Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 06:32 PM
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35. My favorite U.S. city. Lived there from 1966 to 1971 and remember
some of that time today.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-11-06 06:33 PM
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36. It's probably nicer there right now than it is here.
It SUCKS to be where I am right now.
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BuddhaGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-12-06 09:15 AM
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38. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE San Francisco!
I moved to the Bay Area in 1997 from S. CA where I was born and raised...living now in Marin County. I feel completely at home here and don't think I could live in S. CA again.

We're so close to the City - we can be in the Marina in under 20 min...::sigh:: :-)
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