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The Sunset's pastel charm was a production line. Henry Doelger pointed Henry Ford's assembly line at the dunes and cranked out two stucco houses a day.
The best thing about San Francisco is leaving a 75-degree Mission and arriving in a 52-degree Sunset like you crossed a national border.
Do you still eat out in SF for under $15?
$50 in this city is one cocktail at the wrong bar, or like half of a parking ticket. We built a whole map of where it can still buy you actual dinner. 116 spots, sorted by neighborhood, prices checked in spring 2026.
They called it Gay Freedom Day in 1979. Not Pride.
The Pride diet 🌈
The best thing about San Francisco is that everyone here is 'between things,' and somehow still paying $3,200 for a studio.
We know this is satire but it makes us think about any productive ways to use AI. Not for avoiding people but connecting with them more.
Which is understandably counter intuitive. Every time we get an email that AI wrote, from a person we actually know, we want to light said person on fire.
We asked San Franciscans where they like to get stoned. One reader said "in the middle of Costco, so I can move like the other people in there." Honestly, no notes.
