Everything seems great when you compare it to some place worse. That's why you won't find many transplants from big cities in SF, but instead lots of people from tiny Midwestern and Southern towns that moved to SF for work. So of course everyone in SF thinks the city is amazing; for most people there, it's the best place they've ever lived.<p>Try living in New York or LA, or even a smaller city like Boston/Seattle/Portland/Austin, and suddenly SF seems like an over-hyped bubble full of insecure people.<p>Regarding the "maker culture," I feel like I heard this myth a lot. In my view, SF's culture is becoming the boring valley office park culture. SF is packed with 20-30 y.o. single white and Asian males. Not the cool, eclectic city it was once know for, SF now feels awkward and boring. And again the most frustrating part of that is everyone is convinced they're living in Paris, but better cause "we're all entrepreneurs!! Looks how smart we all are!"<p>The comments about public transportation are laughable. SF is a joke. Even if you include the whole Bay Area's mediocre train systems, SF is a poor example of public transportation, even for the US. The BART makes one pass through a single corridor of the city and stops running at midnight.<p>Other cities around the size of SF: Indianapolis, IN. Fort Worth, TX. Columbus, OH. Charlotte, NC. And a lot of these cities have comparable (i.e. not very good) public transit systems.