Some conclusions about the high desert after five months of desert life

Re:Some conclusions about the high desert after five months ... by gumby on Saturday February 12, 2022 @01:26PM (#30314976)

> LA is great… As you approach the city you feel the ambient stress levels start ramping up.

I find the Bay Area, and the valley in particular energizing, and even high stress. There’s something going on on every corner. My wife, an artist, found it dull, a cultural wasteland.

When we went to LA she was excited by the high energy buzz, all the activity wherever you looked, and so much creativity. While to me, it was a sleepy place: the people even walked slowly and had long lunches!

All a matter of perspective.

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Re:Some conclusions about the high desert after five months ... by vmception on Saturday February 12, 2022 @02:35PM (#30315572)

But in what way is your perspective about SF Bay Area objective?

From what I noticed, the people that like that place and aspire for it, aside from natives:

Live in northern california or central valley and have no other city around. They aspire to escape their circumstance to SF.

Other groups of people that have no other frame of reference of the other major cities, specifically LA/NYC.

A work visa holder with no choice in the matter.

Or people with other frames of reference that love the outdoors and doing things an 1-4 hours away from the area but pretending it is something they do in that area. “What do you like about San Francisco?” <fond memories of hikes in Marin and Lake Tahoe>

Just for the benefit of the doubt I’m going to put you in that last category. I’m really just hoping that you don’t mean running around to tech meetups for pizza and AWS credits and saying its a matter of perspective.

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Re:Some conclusions about the high desert after five months ... by andreilys on Saturday February 12, 2022 @01:51PM (#30315207)

I mean… the SFBA when benchmarked against NYC and LA is a cultural wasteland, I don’t think that’s a matter of opinion.

Very few artists/creatives live there because they are priced out by tech workers.

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Re:Some conclusions about the high desert after five months ... by opportune on Saturday February 12, 2022 @05:55PM (#30317207)

Depends on what you mean by culture. In terms of haute or prestige culture including the arts that would be correct. But if you are looking for fringe subcultures like psychonauts, ENM, amateur philosophy, people into weird shit like growing gourmet mushrooms or home (not necessarily illegal) chemistry - basically the stuff you wouldn't see on Instagram or whatever because it's too niche and weird - the SFBA has a really high density.

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