I just read Alex Payne’s blog post about moving to San Francisco and it got my wheels moving again on a blog post I started writing about SF. First I urge you to read this blog post and then come back here:

http://al3x.net/2009/10/04/so-youre-moving-to-san-francisco.html

I totally agree with every single thing Alex pointed out. Although I lived in Silicon Valley the past two years, I can totally relate to the troubles Alex sees in the city. It’s natural beauty is completely drowned by a decaying city. I really wanted to like SF when I first moved to the valley … but the amount of homeless people (aggressive ones nonetheless), the safety concerns, the terrible public transportation system, the poorly designed roads, the ridiculous housing costs, and the nature of the people that live there are a complete turn off.

SF just can’t compete with cities like NYC.  That’s all I have to say about that.