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Originally Posted by S Nabors 
The funny thing about San Francisco is that if you grow up in the Bay Area and aren't from San Fran, you most likely hate it. To the rest of the country, SF is the most liberal place on Earth. If you grow up in Oakland or Berkeley or something like that, you see SF as the epitome of corporate.
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I'm going to have to disagree with this. If you live in the Bay Area and are in your late teens to your mid-twenties, San Francisco is considered
the place to be. E.g. I've lived in Berkeley for four years and I've rarely ever heard San Francisco actually mentioned by name by anyone living in the area; when people talk about going to San Francisco, they talk about going to "The City."
Regarding the ranking, when you consider its cultural significance, its economic power, the diversity and beauty of its natural settings, and its policies concerning labor and conservation of energy, the state is easily #1 in an objective ranking. Also, San Francisco is taking steps to make it a more distant second to New York for the title of most expensive city in the contiguous United States by doing things like turning Treasure Island into a lower income district aimed more at blue collar workers and students than section 8.