San Francisco: Busy vs. Laidback
By JournalR on Jul 12, 2009 in Travel
Last night I went to a party here in San Francisco. There were two out-of-town guests at this party. They presented very different ideas of what it’s like to travel to San Francisco. That’s because they were both from wildly different places.
One of the guests was from New York. His reason for traveling to San Francisco was to enjoy a laidback “visit to the country”. Of course, San Francisco is a dense urban area. In fact, many San Francisco attractions are similar to popular New York attractions (museums, theatres, etc.) Nevertheless, it’s quiet compared to New York so this traveler was coming here to relax and recuperate from his busy life.
The other guest was from a small town in Idaho. She had never been to a city with a population larger than 100,000. You can imagine how busy she thought San Francisco was with its one million odd people crammed into a fifty square mile space! For her, San Francisco travel is all about adventure and excitement and seeing “the big city”.
So is San Francisco a laidback destination or a busy one? It just depends on where you’re coming from. For those of us who live here, it’s that place that’s perfectly in the middle!