You know what, you're right. San Francisco is a helluva lot better than most American cities. I'm comparing it to New York, London, or Los Angeles. By that standard, unfair as it may be, San Francisco doesn't stack up.

True, many San Francisco old-timers like the fact that it's a village. They don't want it to be New York. But, for a brief moment, SF/SV had an idea of itself as the center of the new world. The city set ambitious goals for itself. It failed, like a startup that can't live up to its own hype.

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