HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM!!!!

Mini-meara:

First of all, we have way more flavors of human than white, gay and Asian. Ever been to the Mission, canuckface! Way more than Seattle too for that matter, whitebread city with a side of soy sauce.

Perhaps true, but not more than NY I’m afraid.

It defers to New York until Bon makes ridiculous claims about Manhattan being gayer than San Francisco. (So Not!)

However, I will grant you that SF is way gayer.

I don't have an inferiority complex about NYC. I have a persecution complex. I've never really had a good visit there--long, short, staying at a hotel, staying with a friend, hitting all the theaters, drifting around various NYU graduate buildings and going to grad student parties, it just didn't matter. NYC seems to have it in for me, and I've mostly given up on it (except, damn, the live theater never disappoints, never--and even if some individual show does disappoint, there are eighty billion others from which to choose). (And, in my very limited experience, Brooklyn is just plain awesome.)

I really have no interest in Manhattan, but I loved living in Brooklyn. Loved.

I don't know that Boston-area people are mean, but they really don't want to talk to you. IME.

True of most of New England I’d say.

See, I go into Boston on the assumption that the cars are all independently sentient beings out to mow down everything in their paths, I act accordingly avoidant and cautious, and I do just fine.

And yet, still better drivers than in California. By far.

This is why I can never leave the Northeast. Living in DC made me nuts.

I think it explains your overt (we've seen the hat, it's not a secret) desire to be a cowgirl and move to Montana.

As someone who grew up in the greater Boston area and now lives in NYC, I have to confess that the idea of being spontaneously nice to a stranger doesn't really make any sense to me.

Those big east cities have crushed your soul.

I feel the same way as Jesse, but it has nothing to do with geography; I just don't like people.

In the wrong neighborhood to be newsworthy, I guess.

Good lord, what neighborhood/street? So I can avoid riding my nonexistant bike there.

I was shocked to learn there'd been a murder in my complex in the past 6 months. A building far from mine, but still.

Lisah, go out cycling with a red ribbon on your wrist...that'll catch 'em.

Yeah, we were joking that reporters were all busy chasing the fake homeless serial killer story.

And yet, still better drivers than in California. By far.

Seriously!!! although there are bad drivers everywhere. Each place has its unique bad driving habit though. Like in NC, it's like they don't actually install turn signals as a standard feature in the cars there.

Good lord, what neighborhood/street? So I can avoid riding my nonexistant bike there.

Hilton Ave.

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Like in NC, it's like they don't actually install turn signals as a standard feature in the cars there.

At least they stop at stop signs (for the most part).

In the last 24 hours, I'd say maybe 5% of cars I've seen have signalled, one cut right in front of a MUNI train, and one whizzed by just inches from me as I was crossing a street at a crosswalk actually marked with a "you must stop for pedestrians" cone.

Like in NC, it's like they don't actually install turn signals as a standard feature in the cars there.

Oh god, my husband has picked this up. I am continually giving him dope-slaps about it. Because as a frequent pedestrian, it is maddening to not know if this car is planning to kill you or not! Also, NC? Longest traffic lights in Christendom. There's one near NCState that you can, like, raise a child in the car while you wait.

I will say, I am from New England but am perfectly comfortable with the various levels of greetings I get as an NC resident. I do work with a LOT of out of staters, though.

Oh wait. It wasn't a murder. Just an arrest that took place in the complex. Whew. Glad I got moderately more curious.