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Why i love it...
By Will Fulford-Jones, Editor of Time Out San Francisco
San Francisco’s greatest asset is its coastline. Hemmed in by water on three sides, not an inch is wasted. Old-money hotels on Nob Hill peer down on no-money dive bars in the Tenderloin. High-class museums overshadow low-concept clubs. Few cities set such jarring contradictions so scintillatingly close together. Its reputation as a progressive, liberal town is well earned, but while the residents are a laid-back bunch, the city’s pulse ticks quicker than any other on the west coast. Perhaps it’s a subconscious fear of another earthquake, or just the locals’ casual self awareness that they live in the US’s most anachronistic, treasurable town. Tony Bennett left his heart here; they followed theirs and stayed.
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