![]() ![]() However, the location, at Howard between Fourth and Fifth, exposes the walker to the epicenter of San Francisco’s un/under-housed population, which appears to be at 7 th and Mission. The hotel has over thirty stores and floor to ceiling windows, with spectacular views of the City (many older San Francisco hotels are short and dark, with small rooms). We stayed at the wonderful Intercontinental in SOMA. San Francisco, another city, like New York, is often described by the punditocracy as an astronomically priced hellscape inhabited only by trustafarians, over-paid young techies and the wild-eyed, violent homeless. I was ready to start shopping for a new place to live. We went to North Beach for a classic cioppino at Sotto Mare, we took the bus to the Pacific and sat on a park bench in the sun facing the ocean (with no sign of the generally ubiquitous “Carl the Fog”), reading the wonderful new, posthumous La Carré novel. ![]() The adjective “Mediterranean,” often used to describe the climate, could not have been more apt on this trip. ![]() And, more importantly it is a good, rather than a bad, thing.Īdmittedly, my recent visit was on spectacularly beautiful, cloudless days. Basic economics: demand outstrips supply. That is why real estate in San Francisco is expensive. A lot of those people are also highly skilled and/or unusually creative. A good many of those people have substantial resources. As a result, many, many people want to live there. San Francisco is one of the most desirable places on the planet to live, both because of its climate and because of its amenities.
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