August 15, 2008
My First Experience In San Francisco
My friend Vasken and I flew out to San Francisco for the weekend to go to a WordPress conference called Wordcamp. I have been to other countries and other continents, but I have never been off the East coast.
We were really excited about spending time in the city and go to the conference until everything went downhill. Speaking of downhill, I thought the entire city was on a hill, but we walked through part of the city and didn’t see one hill. However I know they are here somewhere, we just haven’t seen them yet.
Back to my story. Even though I grew up right outside Boston, I was sheltered. I have been to the bad parts of Boston, but I was in shock as to what I saw in San Fran. We walked 12 city blocks and saw at least 50 homeless people sleeping in store fronts. This wasn’t even the bad part of the city. We passed the “Four Seasons Hotel” which is one of the nicest hotels. Vasken and I were discussing the fact that are opinions about the city changed drastically in a few hours. At one point Vasken suggested that we start a company and relocate to San Francisco. After tonight, we wanted to fly back to Boston ASAP and never come back.
I am sorry to the people who might live in san fran who read this, but I did not like the city one but and neither did Vasken.
