[SmithL]

Something a little lighter from Cinnamon Stillwell, one of my favorites the Chronicle.

[SmithL]

Bay Area homegrown tourist ping

[Dashing Dasher]

I moved here in 1991 and haven't stopped being a tourist since. It's just an amazing place - if it weren't for the fruits and nuts - it would be perfect.

[Gingersnap]

I like Cinnamon but even she has some of the coastal contempt for "regular" folks. Yeah, not everybody likes wheat grass juice or burritos and some people prefer plain food. This is not yet a Federal offense.

And what's wrong with going to tourist places when you are one? There's a reason they're popular. Sure, after several trips you might want to branch out some but really there's nothing wrong with actually being a tourist.

[Citizen James]

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Thanks for the ping. San Francisco is a fun place. It does, however, takes a strong stomach to live here amongst the hoards of moon-bats, but you learn to survive. When showing folks around, I pretty much schedule 'where not to go,' ie. the Haight, the Tenderloin, the Mission, the Castro, parts of the Western Addition, etc. The rest of the city is fair game...