One time I met someone who I thought wanted to be a friend and she just wanted to ask if she could list all my awesome food recs in her ‘food recs startup’
Another time I met someone who was cool and then when we hung out she started spouting the worst Hindutva nonsense
Making friends in San Francisco is hard, I should move to Oakland lol
Spiritually, culturally, culinarily, I have always known I was more Oakland than SF. I feel much more at home there. I pop over so much. I take every opportunity to go there. Logistically it’ll just be quite different from anywhere else I’ve ever lived: not being able to get out and get in a bus or train easily will be hard (even SF is hard for me, on that metric, Oakland will be harder).
@skinnylatte Oakland always sounded fun to me, with the jazz scene at Jack London Square that the KCSM announcers frequently go on about. Would love to revisit both Oakland and the City one day!
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I decamped from SF to Oakland in 2014 - I loved 2010 SF (even though the character was already changing). Oakland was lovely, such distinctive character, and while it has all the same problems as SF, they're not as extreme and they're mitigated by how strong a sense of itself Oakland has. I miss it a lot, having recently moved up to Seattle
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