[hazyc]

Do you even live here? Walk around the Marina, Pac Heights, Presidio, Noe Valley, etc etc and tell me with a straight face that it's an "unmitigated disaster". If you can afford to live here (i.e. you can afford to avoid 'downtown') then you would realize that it's one of the nicest cities in the world.

[systemvoltage]

I wrote about my most recent visit here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356169

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31532901

I live in Oakland which is fucked up in its own ways.

You can't be taken seriously when you consider SF to be the nicest cities in the world. Try visiting Singapore or Tokyo or Melbourne.

[SilasX]

Rio de Janeiro is great too, if you avoid the favelas.

[danielscrubs]

I have the best corn flakes in the world, you just have to avoid the green moldy bits in it.