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by Amezarak
4334 days ago
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> I'm no historical figure, but I can't feel productive in a location where I can't just randomly decide one night that I've had it with work, want to throw my laptop out hte window, and should just go out for a pint. So you get up, walk outside, and voila, full bars on any random night of the week. That doesn't seem to be a really high bar. For example, the county I live in has approximately 140k people and a population density of 128 / square mile. I think that most people would regard it as pretty rural, and it is in flyover country. Yet I can still go out any day of the week to any one of a sizable number of bars and expect them to be decently full. I've run into all kinds of interesting people...though I don't expect to ever run into anybody famous. I've traveled a lot and I don't mind big cities, but I've never really understood what they have to offer that I don't already have, barring certain kinds of professional network effects (e.g. Silicon Valley for startups, LA for the movie industry.) |
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In my experience there is a big difference between "sizable number of bars ... decently full" and "a lot of bars/clubs/places ... full".
In my home town (300k people) you get many of bars that are pretty full a lot of the time, some bars that are full-ish some of the time, and a lot of bars that are mostly empty most of the time. And nightclubs, god help you if your taste in music is not mainstream. You will go to a club on a super duper full night and there will be 20 people there.
Compare that to SF. More bars than I could visit in my lifetime. Most of them decently full most of the time. Most of them packed on party nights. No matter what music I decide to listen to, the club will be packed. As obscure as I can bear, club will still be packed.
And SF is not even a giant city. It's got less than 3x the population of my home town.