Everyone should visit San Francisco at least once. It's really a spectacular place.
Just take the normal precautions of not discussing politics, news, energy, or anything more cerebral than sports.
You'll be fine.
Agreed. And avoid downtown.
If the people are that damn "sensitive" and childish, forget it. There are lots of spectacular places on Planet Earth.
So you mean I can't wear an anti-Che shirt there?
One day it will be up to Asians, Indians, and Russians as to what the political makeup of the SF Peninsula will be. Once the old hippie 'Boomers start croaking, I predict a significant change in politics, particularly if the Asians and Russians have the greatest say in it. Take one look at who's filling the churches on the weekends and your answer is right there. Same thing goes for who the cops are around here.
The demographics ought to change faster than anyone thinks, too: The hippies forgot to have kids. The little Asian girl who spends her evenings next door playing viola and piano is probably Stanford-bound, judging by the rear window sticker on her dad's minivan. I can already tell she's probably got more smarts than any of the greying and spacey hippie-era people that still hang on to San Francisco.
Say what you want about this place, but if something happens to my health that's life-threateningly serious while I'm anywhere in the world, get me on a jet straight back to San Francisco and take me to Stanford University Medical Center's emergency room.
I have a friend who makes frequent trips to the bay and has a W sticker and a Green Bay Packer sticker on the back of his truck. Always fun.