Do any grown-ups actually live in San Francisco?

[yuiyoshida]

By Matt Haber
Updated 4:01 pm, Friday, October 17, 2014

The first month I moved here from New York, a friend visited from Brooklyn. While showing off what little I knew of my new city, I took her to Dolores Park on a weekday afternoon. Taking a seat on the grass amid the dogs, the nearly nude sunbathers and the guys playing with those spinning sticks, she had one question for me: “Where are all the grown-ups?”

I’ve asked myself that so many times in San Francisco. Spotting matching father-and-child scooters: Where are all the grown-ups? Encountering an adult in a onesie (with ears): Where are all the grown-ups? Walking my dog past a line of people — many in short pants — waiting for Bi-Rite ice cream: Where are the grown-ups?


Sure, Brooklyn had its sneaker-shod Peter Pans hoping that if they slouched their jeans right they’d turn the clock back to the days before they knew about sleep training and interest rates, but when it comes to cultivated immaturity, San Francisco has Oakland-on-the-East-River beat. Many New Yorkers in their 30s and 40s live in a kind of twilight adulthood that includes a passion for both Lipitor and Lil Wayne, but in San Francisco it seems so much more willful, as an exasperated parent might say.

Let me put it this way: I lived in New York 19 years without being chastised for not owning any costumes.

http://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Do-any-grown-ups-actually-live-in-San-Francisco-5828105.php

[Joanie Baloney]

1. The key to this article and the writer's slant is in the first line

"The first month I moved here from New York..." Transplants from New York always seem to be unhappily comparing their new surroundings with New York. And speaking about it. Incessantly. If the Big Apple is all that...why ever leave?



-JB

[yuiyoshida]

5. Bingo!

I am always hearing this from NYC transplants.

[savalez]

9. And they'll complain for years

and never go back.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I think it sounds wonderful in San Francisco!

[Turbineguy]

3. As one of my San Francisco friends always said....

"There are two kinds of people: those who live in San Francisco and those who wished they lived in San Francisco!"

[yuiyoshida]

4. I am glad I am one of those

who lives in this lovely city, I just wish the prices would go down a bit!!

[KamaAina]

6. I sincerely hope not.

[Maedhros]

7. Translation: Why isn't everyone cynical, like in New York? [n/t]

[mitchtv]

8. they are in Palm Springs

if you must know,

[bayareaboy]

10. At least in Dolger-ville out there in the great plains of Daly City.

Perhaps farther out like San Bruno, or in my case back to the East Bay. I lived in the Bay Area till about 60ish.

Then I found out that I can visit once or twice a year and feel A-OK about the City.