3/4 Questions I Have for San Francisco (In No Specific Order)

I have lived in Wisconsin my entire life. I moved towns a couple of times, but they never had a population above 3,000 people. I went to high school in the only Wisconsin county that does not have a single stop light. There is no denying that I was bound to experience some version of culture shock while we were in San Francisco. While I ended up handling my culture shock better than anticipated, there were a couple of things that I could not wrap my head around. Here is my list of questions for San Francisco that I could not figure out even after being there for two weeks.

1. How do you build your houses?

A lot of my extended family works in construction, so I am familiar with the process of building houses. I simply just do not understand how you build houses with multiple floors in such hilly terrain. Every single house or building is crammed right next to each other, they are using every bit of space that was there. Not once in our two weeks did, I see any construction workers building a house. I am not sure why my midwestern mind cannot wrap my head around how building a house works when the surface is so hilly.

2. Is “Midwest Nice” real and the west side of the country tends to be a little rude compared to the Midwest, or am I just sensitive?

I’ve never fully understood what people meant by “Midwest Nice” until being out of the central region of the country. Not to say that I thought people out west were rude by any means, I just felt like it was lacking the overly nice vibe that the Midwest has. This also could just be me being a little sensitive and over analyzing too. Who knows?

3. How do you deal with the traffic?

Riding in the Ubers alone was enough to make me never want to drive in San Francisco. Even just walking on the sidewalks, I was stressed out for every single person driving. I honestly have a lot of respect for anyone who can drive in an environment like that. Everyone was impatient. I have honestly never heard horns that cars have being used that much during the two weeks than I have heard in my entire life. I guess the answer to this question is could circle back to the last one. I will stick to my deserted back roads please and thank you.

4. Not a question, but y'all really know how to celebrate pride month.

San Francisco Pride has set my standard for future pride celebrations extremely high. I had never been to anything pride related, so I was not sure what to expect, but it was not that. I had never seen that many people in one space celebrating their individual self. It was really beautiful to see and experience.

Dear San Francisco,

Overall, I loved my time in San Francisco. I am more of a small-town guy rather than a big city guy, but it was one of the coolest places to visit. Thank you for having an easy to navigate public transportation system and 60-degree weather.