This is so negative, I wasn't sure if I should bother responding. But I grew up in SF, and I am kind of fascinated by the intensity of the hate some people feel for this city. Obviously, some of the anger from the rest of the country is a result of a pretty extreme leftism in SF (you know, that part where Bill Oreilly invited Al Quaeda to blow up coit tower). That's not a big surprise, not agreeing with it, just saying it's no real mystery.<p>But this charge that SF isn't a "real" city. I'm not sure what that means. New York and Tokyo are of course vastly larger cities. Maybe it's that SF has a high profile for such a small city, expectations are different?