Never been to San Francisco. Never had the desire. The only time I was in California was in 2007 to take a 5-day cruise. An old friend who lived in Arizona had already booked and paid for it. I’d never taken a cruise before, and she figured that it was short enough for me to decide if it was anything I’d do again. I flew to Arizona from Syracuse, NY, and she drove us to San Diego a couple of days before the cruise left. We went to the San Diego Zoo, and went to Balboa Park, viewing the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit that was at the Museum of Natural History. I decided that ship cruises were not my thing, and never went on another one. In fact, that was the last time I ever flew.
Just mentioning it because its an example of the religious “fertility” of the US, even in San Francisco. There is no consensus anywhere in the US, even in the absolute deepest blue city.
Travel broadens experience, especially so if one does it close and personal. Talk to people, learn languages and dialects and jargon, chat, tell jokes, laugh at theirs. I guess its a matter of personality, but even so, its a good thing to do for the sake of establishing perspective. Leave your bubble and enter other peoples bubbles.