SergeyShelukhin

Wow! I thought I'd never live in a place worse than Mountain View (or heck I'd rather live in a bad part of Moscow Russia, were it in US, than here), boy was I wrong.
You get the worst of suburbs and urban, and I mean the worst, not even like Mountain View worst.
So...
- transit sucks. You have lots of slow crappy buses, so if you don't value your time you can get to SOME places, slow. Airport by transit takes 1.5 hours. Just like in the burbs.
- driving also sucks. There's no highway, little streets with tons of stopsigns. Highway 1 is a lie.
- parking also sucks unless you have a garage, which many houses don't. There's always some moron blocking 2 spots or a pissy grandma to give you a ticket for overshooting her driveway for one inch.
- did I mention walking sucks? Unless you live on a short stretch of Clement (5th-12th, or so), it will take you 10-20 minutes of walking past what amounts to suburbs to get anywhere.
- and, there are almost no real stores here, so-so Chinese groceries and there's one Safeway-like store which will probably be a 15-minute walk. Whole Foods? Trader Joe? A Safeway? Forget it.
- so if it's not vibrant it must be quiet? Wrong, you'll have homeless people trying to harass you at a gas station (at least I'm Russian so I don't feel embarrassed like locals to just tell them to f the h off), and then cops kicking homeless people out of the park right outside your window.
- damn, almost forgot! The sketchy dudes stealing recycling Monday nights! You want to sleep at night in your street facing bedroom? You better be able to sleep thru lots of glass sounds and falling bins at 1am.
- of course, you will also hear your neighbors talk, watch TV, walk around, and snore, because most of the housing here sucks - it's dilapidated crap built 100 years ago. Some places (not ours, thankfully) even come without laundry. But you'll enjoy a friendly neighborhood landromat on Clement where the resident homeless guy (the bearded guy, he's actually pretty chill) sleeps in the rain.
- and, I am not even talking about ancient appliances, windows that won't stay open, zero insulation, the hot water that takes 3 minutes to come... that could have been my building. But, many of the other houses may be even worse by the looks of it.
- speaking of which, all these houses also look like crap, which you will enjoy on your 12-minute slog for a donut in the fog.
- yeah, fog. Probably the worst place in SF weather-wise. I work near Union Square... every time I go back home it's goodbye the sun.
- did I forget something? Sinkholes, I guess?

Now the good.
The trees. Unlike say SOMA and Mission, there are lots of trees, so there's that.

This place is utterly horrible! I am moving away soon and I'm counting the days.