drgonch

My first apartment in the city after moving out of the dorms was in the Ternderloin (Hyde at Ellis). I lived in a cramped studio for over a year before I finally managed to move out and up next to Nob Hill (Pine at Mason).

The difference really is like night and day, and it's only six blocks up! You can clearly see the shift away from the Tenderloin as you go up, and the slide into Chinatown as you go down towards Fisherman's Wharf. I can walk outside at night without being afraid of being mugged (although I still watch my back), and I can go down the street to the store without being harassed for change or yelled at incoherently by a crazed homeless man.

The area hosts a plethora of restaurants (as with most of SF) that I've just begun to explore, as well as three different convenience stores in as many different directions, and that's just within one to two blocks of my front door. traffic on Pine can get obnoxious when the workday comes to a close, but I'm a cheap pedestrian, so all the cars serve as good people-watching from my front window.