I hate SAN FRANCISCO.
Sep 26th, 2009 by Goldie
My husband and I went to San Francisco over the weekend. What a joke! Could people be more sarcastic and arrogant? I couldn’t believe it! At first, I was in denial. Then, I realized that everyone was an asshole!
My first asshole encounter was with a tall, fedora hat-wearing hipster working at Primavera on Saturday at the Farmers Market (food is great, people suck). Honestly, Asshole, you can crack a smile! For someone who is in customer service, you should be more of a ‘people person’ and less of an asshole. Yes, I am well aware that I am a tourist, but as a CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE you should understand you are there for the CUSTOMER (including tourists) and not for your pompous image of an ‘individual.’ If you were such an individual, I wouldn’t be able to be a label on you as an ASSHOLE HIPSTER!
There were two other people I wanted to punch in the face while in San Fran (I read that the locals hate the term ‘San Fran’- Now, I love it!)- A bartender and waiter at the Tadich Grill (again, food is great, people suck). Honestly, do you really need to be sarcastic? What is really pissing you off? I understand I was there at 9:30 on a Saturday and you wanted to go home, but THIS IS YOUR JOB! You are paid to be there for the CUSTOMER!
Here are some classic lines from our two dashing Douchebags:
Act I:
My husband: “What do you have on tap?”
Bartender: “Beer.”
No shit, Dickhead!
Act II:
Bartender (to me, as he serves my husband a beer): “Do you always come second in his life?”
Act III:
Waiter: “What can I get you two to drink?”
My husband: “There is a beer coming from the bar for me.”
Waiter: “As your waiter, don’t you think I should know that?”
Dickhead, the bartender told us he would tell you, so settle down!
Act IV:
Me: “How is your bread pudding?”
Waiter: “It depends on where you are from?”
Me: “Michigan.”
Waiter: “Oh, then it will be good for you.”
Really, Asshole? Really? Some bald, HIPSTER asshole from San Francisco is suddenly the expert in bread pudding?
While I could go on and on about the Assholeness in San Francisco, the last asshole encounter I would like to mention is our douchebag tag wearin’ Concierge at the hotel. The hotel was great, but easy with the ‘quirky’ and ‘witty’ concierge service. You are here to help your guest, not make inappropriate comments and keep the ‘tourist’ in the ‘tourist spots’ of San Francisco. I’ve never been in a city that was so segregated and pretentious in my life!
If you are heading out to San Francisco, here is a helpful tip- it is only a day trip! Spend your time outside the city- as long as you can! We wanted to go Wine Country, but didn’t think we had time. On Day 2, we were ready to go to the airport and return to Detroit Metro! I must say, it is pretty sad that we would rather come back to Detroit, than stay in sunny California!
Honest Travel Tips about San Francisco:
Fisherman’s Wharf- Disgustingly commercialized! It is NOTHING like Chicago’s Navy Pier! The sea lions smell. Bad.
Ghirardelli Square-There are maybe 5 shops in the whole place. It is such a joke! Plus, you can buy Ghirardelli chocolates ANYWHERE!
Ferry Building Marketplace- Amazing! Honestly, the best thing about San Francisco, but only when the Farmer’s Market is there (T, TH, and Sat).
Cable Cars- The tourists are the only people that use these things and they are ‘stuffed’ in there like sardines. It is so ridiculous.
Homeless People- They are everywhere. It makes you feel so bad, but never fear, they are assholes, too. They make inappropriate comments to you that are either sexual or racist.
Golden Gate Bridge- It’s a bridge. End of story.
Union Square- There is no cool square with street vendors or performers. It is just a square with some little cafes and some landscaping. Outside of ‘the square’ there are shops, shops, and more shops.
Chinatown- That’s about it. Just like every other city. However, R & G Lounge is AMAZING!
Haight Ashbury-It is San Fran’s Fisherman’s Wharf by land. Too commercialized. The hippies are now drinking Starbucks and listening to Grateful Dead on their iPods.
The Food- YUM. YUM. YUM. If it wasn’t for the food, I would really hate San Francisco.
Love it and so true!! I’ve lived in this stupid, overrated, obnoxious, ignorant, pretentious “city” full of hipster douchebag clowns who just got off the bus from Iowa, for 7 years now. I am dying, DYING to move back home to New York.
And btw – it ain’t even sunny more than 2 weeks of the year here.
I completely agree! While I never considered “Frisco” anything special, not even its food, I really never realized what a disgusting overrated crap-hole that town was till I actually moved there. It’s a place with a severe identity crisis; it pathetically dwells in shocking hypocrisy and sad delusions of grandeur. The only good thing about SF is the view of it from Oakland, and other than that it’s nothing but a 3-day tourist trap that produces nothing of real value. Reading your post made me realize how happy I am to have left that execrable city of fog and idiots.
identity crisis is the prefect description! if you ever get a chance, look up south park’s ‘smug’ episode. more proof that san fran is full of assholes! glad you made it out!
Thank the stars! I thought I was the only person on the planet who hated San Francisco! Actually, the city is beautiful and there are plenty of interesting things to do-but the PEOPLE-eeewww. I’ve never been so utterly turned off to a location by the people who live there. I’m a liberal and the small mindedness of the people in the so-called “liberal mecca” of the US is disgusting. These people are only liberal if that means everyone has to think exactly like them. Take me home to Chicago where people may be “conservative” midwesterners but they don’t give a damn what you think as long as you leave them the hell alone.
Funny, I googled “I hate San Francisco” and stumbled upon this. I lived there for 2 years and grew to loathe that city. On paper it should be a great city: beautiful location, compact, attractive. But the weather and the pretentious, provincial people absolutely ruin it.
TOTALLY… I’ve moved here after 12 years in LA… and I have never met a bunch of arrogant lost souls in my life… people are dirty… narrow-minded… and down right rude…!!! I too was in denial… but my parter of 5 years are now talking about me relocating back to Los Angeles while he finishes grad school alone…. I left MY heart In LA!!!!!
Ya know, there really is no excuse for being rude to someone, so I don’t mean to try to brush these people’s behavior under the rug. But as long as we’re talking about what we “hate”, would you like to hear about one my pet little pet peeves?
TOURISTS! Pushy, rude, self-centered, inconsiderate tourists, who come to this city expecting everyone to bend over backwards for them and then get mad when we don’t snap to it. Let me tell you, it’s a lot to put up with. The sense of entitlement that folks carry with them on vacation is astonishing, as though the entire city (and all of us in it) are here solely to entertain them. I swear I’ve had complete strangers approach me on the street and complain that they can’t, for example, find a hotel with decent rates or get tickets to Alcatraz. As though this is somehow my responsibility.
Is the author of this blog one of those rude, obnoxious out-of-towners that I hate so much? I have no idea. Perhaps she’s a perfectly polite victim of circumstance who got a raw deal, and if so I am genuinely and dreadfully sorry. I don’t pretend this city is perfect and God knows I have my share of gripes about it. But I will tell you that when faced with the sort of discourteous behavior that people routinely evince when visiting the Bay, even the saintliest of us can start feeling downright nasty in return. Maybe your barista is genuinely an asshole, or maybe he’s just crabby because that couple from Long Island bit his head off because he didn’t know how to get to the Golden Gate Bridge from Bernal Heights.
The height (or nadir) of this phenomena has of course got to be those busloads of lookie-loos who drive through the Castro snapping photos of the locals like they’re animals on a safari. I’m amazed we went all summer without one of those twits getting punched in the face. I can’t imagine what people do with those photos, go home and show them off saying “Look, real homosexuals, just like it talked about in the Encyclopedia!” Do you know have gay people back home? Must you treat ours like a freak show?
Btw, you know what ruined Fisherman’s Wharf? Tourism! Sort of a Catch-22 thing I guess.
Yes this place is shit, and thats too bad cause we all want to say we are home here, but the truth is that the majority of these people are retarded nobodys, jaded by the likes of isolated fashions of the clothes they wear, and the brainless rags they are reading. Yeah I regret being ever coming here, and wish I was able to find a place to be that didnt reek of such a rat race. I even took a job driving a taxi to seperate myself from the miserable assholes but now I realize I have turned over a new rock where a whole new species of fucking arrogant greedy dirt bag society thrive, yeah dont ride taxis from the airport, your only stoking a fire ,much to my dismay.
I moved here from LA 5 years ago and cannot believe the mistake I’ve made…I never thought I would say this but I miss LA so frigin much…!
Everything already stated is absolutely true!…It’s an overrated hideous overpriced mess here!!! Idiotic freak show population with no social skills…I’m stuck here for work…But I’m moving very soon…I’ve traveled the world and have never been so disappointed by the population make up of a city like SF in every way…Disgusting!
people in SF hate tourists, there are so many of them they just wear on one. I also know that most restaurants cater to locals and regulars
That’s funny,…I’ve never been to SF but I hate Michigan for some of the same reasons. In the suburbs around Detroit, namely Sterling Heights, people are just total assholes.
I’ve lived in 8 different states, so i believe I have some perspective here.
It must be the cold weather and the economy because I have never been to place so full of heartless assholes.
Yeah, SF Sucks! No joke. Silicon Valley, as in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties to the south of the City and County are alright places to live… but SF sucks for the following:
Weather! The biggest reason!
People suck! Rude, and many weird people too!
Over-priced! And for what?
Congested!
The dating scene is so bad! Good luck finding someone normal!
Muni–what a joke!
I have lived in SF for many years, but want to get out as soon as I am able. I hope that soon is sooner than later! But for now I am counting the days.
If you are reading this, take it to heart, and reconsider coming here, it might be the best thing you ever didn’t do. Let me paint an analogy… Vegas…. everyone knows that it’s nice to visit, right? But to live there? Come on! San Francisco is the same. Ok to visit, but you’d be a fool to think you could ever live here and be happy. I sure ain’t!
I Googled “SF sucks” just out of curiousity. It seems all the rejects come here to be with people like themselves then they inflate their importance and try so hard to be different because they have ZERO identity. When I tell them I am from Kansas many of them laugh. When I tell them I have traveled the world countless times and lived abroad they have no interest or just claim they can experience many cultures right here in SF without traveling. I hear so many whacked out things here like SF is like Paris and that some of the smartest people in the world are here. What nut cases. So many are so rude it is amazing When I first came here they would tell me it is because the people here are so “busy”. I have lived in worked in NYC briefly and they are normal not assholes like here. They actually aknowledge you. If you are not into “pot” or “tattoos” or some dumb nebulous literature you are conservative. This place is a complete joke of a city full of clowns, like some big circus. I mean, many of them actually look like clowns the way they carry themselves with their stupid looking clothes they call fashion. They say I am not well read even though I attended college for 6 years and have an engineering degree and minored in philosophy because I don’t read crap from some Cal Berkeley prof. Oh, and my engineering degree isn’t as valuable as one from Cal Berkeley even though I may perform just as well on a standardized engineering exam as they do. Too much pot loving, hippie culture, organic/earthy, pretentious BS for me. God forbid you queston homosexuality here. I personally don’t care either way, but here they are always talking about it. That and pot. I don’t care! Sick of hearing about it. Just live they way you want and shut up about it. Can’t wait to leave. I have traveled to Europe, Asia, South America, Australia many times and I have never come to a place that is such a mess like this. Too bad because the landscape is truly beautiful. What a waste.
Moved to SF from LA and could only take it for a year. Nice looking city, horrible weather, shitty people, smelly homeless people, and self righteous gay people. Ahhhhh, so glad I left that place!
I just returned from a visit to SF (I lived there for 6 years and moved to Boston about a year ago) and I realized how UNBELIEVABLY happy I am to have left disgusting San Francesspool! I was reminded of the terrible weather, the idiotic and insane people, and the lack of real dynamism in that city. I don’t care for NY or LA much, but I’d rather live in either than SF, at least there are always things to see and do in those places and there is REAL and SUBSTANTIAL cultural, economic, and political diversity to keep things interesting and alive. SF will never have that— it’s simply a facade of what it wishes it really was but definitely isn’t. I actually got into an argument with my friend who still lives there and refuted everything she highlighted that she thought makes SF so “special.” I really shut her up haha. I’m glad the rest of you here see the truth. I HATE SF!
I never write on anything like this often but this topic caught my eye. I have lived here all my life i am 26 now and can’t stand the way this city has become. HIPPSTER ASSCLOWNS! are the worst always got something rude or dumb to say it gets annoying. I can see why most of you hate it I hate and i am a native. Seems to me the more people move in the more assholes we get. All of the natives are almost gone replaced by people who are down right the most rude i ever came across. Can’t wait to finish my last semester and get out of this hell hole.
I HATE San Francisco which is too bad becaue for 30 years it was the promised land for me but after the mayor decided it was his right to tell his employees how to run their personal lives that was the cherry on the sundae. Forget about the destruction the unions headquartered there have done by destroying all manufacturing in the states, forget the jobs these same unions have driven in droves to foreign countries, forget about giving illegals valid driver’s licenses, forget about their disregard for the hard working immigrants who have worked long and hard for LEGAL naturalization, forget everything. When a single a-hole in power believes he can tell people how to live their lives and feels he can tell another separate state how to run itself when he’s responsible for making San Francisco the SHIT HOLE it has become I draw the line. California is BANKRUPT, their unemployment rate is at a historic high, their drug problem is so out of control they’re recourse rather than to control or correct it is to legalize it yet they feel they are qualified to tell another state how to run itself? Yeah, well, we know what will be left standing in the bay after another of 10 years and it won’t be pretty and it won’t be visited by anyone. That should boost the economy.
I recently stayed in San Francisco for a business meeting. It was horrible. The weather was tolerable but the congestion, the filth, the stench of the downtown area, and the RUDE, ARROGANT, IGNORANT, SELF RIGHTEOUS jerks really made my trip a nightmare. I’ve stayed in downtown LA which is bad. I’ve stayed in Baltimore; also bad. But if you were to combine Baltimore and LA at their very worse they would still be an infinity ahead of San Francisco. I don’t understand the draw. Overpriced, over populated, over smug and so over period. I hope that part of California really does fall off into the ocean.
San Francisco is the worst city in the country. It’s filled by such ridiculous, brainless pseudo-intellectual people. For what you get, the people who willingly pay those exorbitant prices to live there have to suffer some sort of mental deficiency. And the weather! Don’t get me started. Some people like seasons, others like sunshine, but SF has neither– just a cold, windy, depressing, annoying fog. People there also like to think that it’s some type of cultural mecca, and while that may be true compared to say, Omaha, it’s mostly just a sad regional attempt at being relevant and on the level of real cultural/artistic capitals. I know, I’m an artist.
Give me NY or LA any day, at least these places are interesting. I wasn’t impressed by SF when I was there, and all it did for me was to demonstrate how a city’s populace can really be its worst quality.
Moved to SF from LA and could only take it for a year. Nice looking city, horrible weather, shitty people, smelly homeless people, and self righteous gay people. Ahhhhh, so glad I left that place!
Thank God I’m not the only one who feels this way. I moved to SF from Florida 10 years ago, but in the last year I moved to Oakland…a HELL of a lot better than f***ing San Francisco. “The city” without people would be beautiful – but it’s the people that make is suck so bad. Self-righteous, pretentious, zero class, and STUPID. Who the hell do they think they are? They talk liberal, but are complete hypocrites. They are either rich because of their former dot.com glory days, or they STILL LIVE WITH THEIR PARENTS! I was on my own at nineteen…but I have never met so many ADULTS who still live with their parents! “To save money,” they say. Their mommies must still cut the crusts off of their sandwiches. Independence be damned…they are too busy living off of their parents. They are not even embarrassed to say this (I am excluding people who live with their parents for cultural, traditional, or caretaker reasons). I am talking about the 20-somethings (ubiquitous in this city) who are too shit scared to venture out on their own. I love my job too much to leave the Bay Area, but I have NO plans to retire here.
The author of this blog is from Detroit, and she’s bagging on San Francisco? hahahahaha. That’s funny. I’m actually from Michigan originally (outside of Detroit) and have been in SF for 5 years, after having lived in NYC for many years.
Sure, San Francisco is not perfect, and it is expensive, at times crowded and there are plenty of hipsters and poseurs here (no more so than NYC), but my god, it is shangri-la compared to fucking Detroit (and the rest of Michigan, for that matter – flat, boring, fly-over country.) We have our share of homeless people but doesn’t every big city? Last time I was in MI I ran a 10k through downtown Detroit and Detroit’s inner city looked like a post-apocalyptic war-zone, complete with homeless people and crack addicts hanging out in burned out vacant buildings. As far as her experiences with her rude waiter and hotel staff in SF, it’s unfortunate that you ran into some rude folks, but I wouldn’t judge an entire city by your interactions with a few people.
Have never suffered from homesickness before and have travelled the world…but there is something about this place, SF, that makes me want to pack my bags and run screaming for the airport every single morning when I wake up. It took me ages to put my finger on why, and I think it’s all been said above. This city actually makes me feel physically ill. When I leave, I will NEVER RETURN. NEVER!
I just moved here and still haven’t figured out the big ol’ hype about this place. You can’t park anywhere, you can’t drive anywhere, and everything’s twice as expensive as it would be across the bridge. It has terrible weather, and believe or not, EVERYTHING LOOKS THE SAME, including people.
I thought this place was supposed to be about diversity and uniqueness. Well, the only thing that is evident is that people are so into being unique, they’re all the same hipster lame-asses. It’s really funny actually- these women with their fancy, little outfits (in the cold, freezing wind), and these dudes with their ties and their iPods. What a complete set of conformists.
Gah! I have to live here for the next three years! God give me the strength I need to maintain sanity!
SF is the most overrated place on the planet. People are so smug and self assured and they’re all wanna be hipster douchebags that couldn’t cut it in new york. Never mind that its a totally racist, segregated, classist city that resembles Denver a lot more than some bohemian enclave. That place is a sad joke.