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If you’re going to Saaaannn Fraaannnciscooooo….

by Virtual Gypsy

Yes, wear flowers in your hair, but also bring comfortable shoes, cuz this is a great walkable city. It’s only 7×7 square miles, and when you get tired, you can always hop a MUNI train or bus to take you from Bay to Pacific Ocean (via the N Judah).

I lived in this balmy, bone-chillin city between 1999 and 2003 during the dot.com boom and bust. The city changed drastically with the influx of East Coast kidz like myself riding around on segues while sipping from cardboard Starbucks cups, on their way to warehouse offices funded by venture capitalists who didn’t bother to look at business plans (hence the bust). We were the Matrix kids. The founding architects of a new world.

This industry directly spawned a new wave of creativity through the ‘Sco, especially in the arts and music scenes…and these are some of my fav haunts, which are still thriving even after the trendy kidz ran back to the East Coast with their tails between their legs: Read the rest of this entry »