How is the downtown closest to you?

In terms of fun, just overall quality/things to do? I live in San Francisco and I love it! very diverse and tons of great things to do plenty of sidewalk cafes and really charming little hole in the wall type places too. I love how its one of those cities I can take someone out to dinner in and we have the option of Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, so many food options! Its also got plenty of colorful characters which means theres never a dull day in San Francisco 8)

Plus the neighborhood I live in (Lower Haight) is a great neighborhood with alot of old school Vinyl shops even though thats not really downtown its pretty much walking distance from downtown

So OT how do you feel about the nearest downtown area to you?

Downtown is okay here, a bit busy at times. I enjoy doing more stuff out of the city than anything.

Surprisingly I think Downtown Riverside is worse than the area I live in but I live almost right next to Lake Hills and Lake Mathews (which are rich neighborhoods) and Riverwalk is directly across the street from me (which is a higher middle class gated community).

Downtown is where everything looks all ghetto-ish and the plaza isnt even great at all, and now that a movie theatre opened 5 minutes from my house there is almost no reason to go downtown ever again.

In terms of fun, just overall quality/things to do? I live in San Francisco and I love it! very diverse and tons of great things to do plenty of sidewalk cafes and really charming little hole in the wall type places too. I love how its one of those cities I can take someone out to dinner in and we have the option of Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, so many food options! Its also got plenty of colorful characters which means theres never a dull day in San Francisco 8)

Plus the neighborhood I live in (Lower Haight) is a great neighborhood with alot of old school Vinyl shops even though thats not really downtown its pretty much walking distance from downtown

FrenchDynasty

I guess it's relative. Almost everything in down town san diego, I don't want to do (other than ball games). The place is a dump anyway.

It's rubbish, nothing to do at all, it rather does make me want to move to some big city one day

I'm next to the 3rd largest downtown (geographically) in the states. I enjoy spending time in it (my office is there).Engrish_Major

After a quick Google search, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.

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In terms of fun, just overall quality/things to do? I live in San Francisco and I love it! very diverse and tons of great things to do plenty of sidewalk cafes and really charming little hole in the wall type places too. I love how its one of those cities I can take someone out to dinner in and we have the option of Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, so many food options! Its also got plenty of colorful characters which means theres never a dull day in San Francisco 8)

Plus the neighborhood I live in (Lower Haight) is a great neighborhood with alot of old school Vinyl shops even though thats not really downtown its pretty much walking distance from downtown

xaos

Nice to meet another SF native 8)

And yeah, sometimes when I'm feeling bold I've walked from the mission over to the piers near the Embarcadero. One thing I love about SF is how ciycle and walking friendly it is lol

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In terms of fun, just overall quality/things to do? I live in San Francisco and I love it! very diverse and tons of great things to do plenty of sidewalk cafes and really charming little hole in the wall type places too. I love how its one of those cities I can take someone out to dinner in and we have the option of Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, so many food options! Its also got plenty of colorful characters which means theres never a dull day in San Francisco 8)

Plus the neighborhood I live in (Lower Haight) is a great neighborhood with alot of old school Vinyl shops even though thats not really downtown its pretty much walking distance from downtown

FrenchDynasty

Nice to meet another SF native 8)

And yeah, sometimes when I'm feeling bold I've walked from the mission over to the piers near the Embarcadero. One thing I love about SF is how ciycle and walking friendly it is lol

I've always wanted that, thats why I want to go to New york or any other bigger city. Where I live if you see someone walking around you usually think "wow did school get out early or something". The sidewalks are typically empty even downtown.

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[QUOTE="xaos"] Lower Haight is a pretty healthy walk from downtown though (I say, typing from my home office on 17th about 200' from Castro station)Jolt_counter119

Nice to meet another SF native 8)

And yeah, sometimes when I'm feeling bold I've walked from the mission over to the piers near the Embarcadero. One thing I love about SF is how ciycle and walking friendly it is lol

I've always wanted that, thats why I want to go to New york or any other bigger city. Where I live if you see someone walking around you usually think "wow did school get out early or something". The sidewalks are typically empty even downtown.

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[QUOTE="xaos"] Lower Haight is a pretty healthy walk from downtown though (I say, typing from my home office on 17th about 200' from Castro station)Jolt_counter119

Nice to meet another SF native 8)

And yeah, sometimes when I'm feeling bold I've walked from the mission over to the piers near the Embarcadero. One thing I love about SF is how ciycle and walking friendly it is lol

I've always wanted that, thats why I want to go to New york or any other bigger city. Where I live if you see someone walking around you usually think "wow did school get out early or something". The sidewalks are typically empty even downtown.

Really dude? even in NY? thats surprising, since i always pictured it on being big on walking too or is it more of a car type place?

Downtown Atlanta is terrible by default. It could have all 10 of the 10 coolest things/places/whatevers on earth and the traffic, layout and convenience factor would make them ALL null and void.

I guess its cool though. I mean, who doesn't want a morning rush hour that starts at 5am and runs to 10am when people finally get to work and off the roads. Luckily its only a short period until rush "hour" starts back up again at 3pm and runs to 7 or 8.

Working nights has its advantages i guess. I work in the heart of downtown and i can get in and get the **** out while everyone else is sleeping. I always smile on the way home in the morning as i look over at the 40 mile long parking lot ( aka I-85 southbound ) as i jet north at 70mph.

And all of this is on a normal day. Wait till 2 or 3 sports seasons are overlapping all with home games on the same day while having a festival and a concert all at the same time.

I could keep going in an attempt to do it justice but even with that you would still have to be here to know exactly how much worse it is than i make it seem.

Good ol' Downtown Judy Brown! lol

Its pretty fun! tons of random peddlers though selling stuff to tourists though you can pick up some stuff on the open market here that you can't find anywhere else. Just last week I bought a "Rolex" for what would be $10 US Dollars lol. it even looks the exact same and the funcion is of course the same

Hey if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck. You can dress it up as a hen (Corny line my dad came up with lol :P

You're lucky to live in San Francisco. Their night life seems awesome.

Dead and boring, haven't been to a shop there in over five years.

It's alright, a lot of stuff to do and have fun, but becomes a bit boring after so long.

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Nice to meet another SF native 8)

And yeah, sometimes when I'm feeling bold I've walked from the mission over to the piers near the Embarcadero. One thing I love about SF is how ciycle and walking friendly it is lol

I've always wanted that, thats why I want to go to New york or any other bigger city. Where I live if you see someone walking around you usually think "wow did school get out early or something". The sidewalks are typically empty even downtown.

Really dude? even in NY? thats surprising, since i always pictured it on being big on walking too or is it more of a car type place?

it pretty much blows.

Horrible, Pittsburgh is boring. It's definitely no Los Angeles-Halftime-

It's Delaware so really anywhere around here is just not that great...unless you want to visit random shops on Main Street that have a few nice things...

Hell if I know, I don't have fun.

Only time I've been down there recently was to escort someone through the town on the worst drinking day of the year. It was a **** hole to say the least.

There's tons of things to do in Toronto. :P I never drive downtown though. I'll risk being late and take the ttc rather than drive.

They got the best mexican/hispanic food here where I live. It's where I buy my 20 pound meat and other stuff when I have money hanging around.

Downtown Ottawa is nice. Very clean, nice architecture (parliment buildings, Chateau Laurier, the Rideau Canal, etc) and easy to navigate. Not much exitement but overall a great place to live around.

Pretty worthless. All the street hookers are ugly.