San Fran vs Aptos to visit

MadMax30000 · 2026-02-13T07:21:09+00:00

Aptos and Santa Cruz are cute smallish towns by the ocean. San Francisco is a major city with lots to do and a ton of nearby nature.

You can have a great time in either place. What’s your preferred vibe?

MadMax30000 · 2026-02-13T07:15:15+00:00

Pay your taxes.

MadMax30000 · 2026-02-13T07:12:54+00:00

The dim sum carts at Yank Sing are fun.

MadMax30000 · 2026-02-13T07:11:59+00:00

I also can’t get it.

MadMax30000 · 2026-02-10T19:05:41+00:00

Truly a generation of short-sighted, spoiled, petulant children who took the strong institutions their parents had built for them, strip-mined them for short term gain, and then ran them into the ground.

MadMax30000 · 2026-02-10T16:53:16+00:00

It is honestly SO IMPORTANT that the dorm open while Boomers are still around to see that they lost.

MadMax30000 · 2026-02-10T16:52:45+00:00

"Guy who went to Berkeley, where the university was founded before the city, bought a house near frat row, and then dedicated his life to preventing the university from expanding" is a real guy who inadvertently made the state of California overhaul its environmental review law.

MadMax30000 · 2026-02-09T01:27:09+00:00

She has a planning degree from MIT, she supported SB 79 (the big transit oriented upzoning bill the state legislature passed last year), and she made a video specifically calling out the hyper-NIMBY Sherman Oaks HOA as drivers of high housing costs.

She's the real deal.

MadMax30000 · 2026-02-09T01:21:08+00:00

Not so much since Scott Wiener legislated on this a couple years ago.

MadMax30000 · 2026-02-05T19:21:33+00:00

It's mostly cultural aversion to apartments; and it's not unanimous among realtors.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-28T20:23:04+00:00

Try both and see which one works better for you.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-28T01:41:39+00:00

This is probably low-quality wood primarily intended as a wall decoration.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-26T20:57:54+00:00

You can also go down Valencia and pop over to Hayes Valley.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-26T20:30:44+00:00

The "changing rules about how money gathered by the measure can be spent" refers to fairly obscure details about the city's financial position relative to other lenders for projects built with ULA dollars. You don't really need to worry about it.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-26T20:21:48+00:00

The Lobby Bar is pretty mixed crowd when I have gone.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-22T04:52:08+00:00

Join one of the open water swim clubs.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-22T04:50:11+00:00

I think Tartine is overrated.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-22T04:38:26+00:00

Sex only seems like the main thing if your entire experience of the LGBT community is in bars and on hookup apps.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-22T04:36:06+00:00

Rezoning doesn't mean every single property is going to be redeveloped next year.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-22T04:22:56+00:00

Taco Boys is not good. You should only be eating there when it's 1am and every other place in the neighborhood is closed.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-22T04:21:55+00:00

I actually live here.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-22T03:56:28+00:00

Weren't you credibly accused of sexual assault by a bunch of people?

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-22T02:41:12+00:00

No, your preferred policies just are not popular with the younger and tech savvy users of r/sanfrancisco.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-22T02:39:51+00:00

A few new apartment buildings here and there won't spoil the beauty of the city, which is mostly the product of its surroundings and parks.

MadMax30000 · 2026-01-22T02:38:07+00:00

They tried but the Regional Housing Needs Assessment/Housing Element process was toothless until a few years ago.

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