Ironically in the second most expensive city in the United
States, we’ve been afforded the opportunity to travel quite a bit. Oddly enough
Tyler’s spent the majority of his time here on an airplane flying all over the
US with work, for family and luckily for leisure. He made the final count on our flight back
from visiting his grandfather in Houston, that he just completed his 10th
flight and trip in a 5 month span. I haven’t traveled as much, but after my
best friend’s Florida wedding in May, I have been back and forth to San Diego
and even took an impromptu trip to Vegas with my friend Jess.
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| Jess and I in Vegas |
It’s not that money goes farther here. It’s just that the
misconceptions which I was fooled by are actually incorrect. It's funny
that I am writing this blog to defend San Francisco when a few months ago I
wasn't keen to the whole idea of the city life. Don’t get me wrong I felt more
at home in San Diego, but the city isn't so bad and it’s actually growing on
me, especially since I’m getting the opportunities to travel.
1.
It’s not as cold and rainy as everyone says it
is. We live in the Mission and most days it is sunny and a high of 70, with
hardly any cloud cover and we rarely get a visit from Karl, the fog.
2.
Aside from rent, everything is priced
equivalently to what I experienced in San Diego. Gas, groceries, beers,
cocktails, clothing, etc is all about the same. We tend to spend more money on
food here, but hell San Francisco has some of the best food in the country!
3. "Everyone is a hipster or pretentious". Not
exactly, there are a lot of hipsters and there are a lot of pretentious people
and I think I've become a semi-pretentious hipster, but the city does it to you and
it’s not necessarily a bad thing. They make best things accessible to you and
introduce you to finer things and smarter ways of doing things and you can’t
really help it.
Those are the top three things I can think of off the bat,
but I’m sure there are more misconceptions that I’m happy to abolish. Living
here for the past 7 months hasn't been the easiest thing I've done, but I’m
definitely learning a lot about myself and what I’m capable of and that’s
something that I find priceless.
I've finally created a little business for myself and although
I've never worked so much in my life, I’m glad to say that I’m doing it and I’m
a better person because of it. I've been blessed to have the opportunity to
work with 3 amazing clients and 1 amazing little boy and I have some money to
spare in this expensive city to visit Thailand, plan New Delhi and well, who
knows.
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