> It’s ridiculous how Manhattan is always brought up as the thing to avoid, when Manhattan has much more humanity and interesting activities than San Francisco.

Those are inherently subjective assessmentd, and I suspect thst people who choose to live in San Francisco instead of Manhattan often disagree with that subjective assessment.

I get that some people prefer Manhattan. I don't see that as an argument for why SF should become a clone of Manhattan.

This seems like an odd thing to say, in that I didn't say we should try to avoid Manhattan.