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by Emigre_ 1862 days ago
I’m curious... what would you say is the difference between San Francisco’s and NY’s cultures?...
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SF is more accepting of alternative lifestyle and personal choices (not just LGBT+).

NY is more direct, and in a sense, more seemingly trustworthy. SF, you often get vague, awkward, meandering intimations rather than honesty.

In SF, most people are either extremely boring, unreasonable, or have repulsive attitudes. (In NY and SF, they're often Seinfeldian.)

In SF, unless a guy is a model, he should go MGTOW because they'd just be wasting their time with swiping apps that only focus on looks (80% of men are ugly according to women), pedigree, and fruitless clamoring for attention.

SF and NY both have art, but NY has Broadway and book publishing.

New York has more women than men. San Francisco has more men than women. Probably because San Francisco is nerdier and techier while New York is more business.
Personal experience. NY tends to have more a-holes. More prone to micro managing. Trash taking various demographics is becoming culturally acceptable.
I think a lot of big cities have aholes. See how many BMW-driving yuppies there are in Palo Alto who try to cut you off and get mad when you don't reward their superior, entitled existence.

> Trash taking various demographics

Hasn't that always been a low-class thing?

When/where/what classes of people did it ever go away?

I've seen it done ironically in the UK amongst good friends and coworkers who are definitely not racist.