San Francisco

[phatgirl]

Can anyone from there help with the following?

- the name of a convention center in the city?
- the name of an exclusive residential area (a gated community)?
- the name of a lower-income residential area?
- the name of an amusement park nearby?

Thanks.

[The Other Steve]

Hello.

1. The Moscone Center, often referred to as “Moscone”: “The auto show is at Moscone.” Not to be rude (it is probably, but I’m an old fart, so there you go), but you should have been able to find this by typing something like “convention center San Francisco” into Google.

2. Presidio Heights. It’s not a gated community, but there is a little gated enclave up there somewhere. The area is home to most of the really, really impressive homes, and a few embassies.

3. Everywhere is lower-income relative to Presidio Heights. The rougher neighborhoods are, the Mission (it’s a district, with a Hispanic/Latino feel, unfortunate stigma is gang activity), or Bay View/Hunter’s Point (projects; someone put a few bullets into a passing municipal bus recently), or the Tenderloin. To me, at night, the Tenderloin always looks an extra degree darker and dirtier than everything else.

4. There’s “Great America”, about an hour south, and “Marine World”, about an hour east. San Francisco has a zoo; the only “rides” are a miniature train and a merry-go-round.

[phatgirl]

Hi TOS,
I figured I could get the info from Google but was also hoping someone nice like you would give me all those extra little details. You did. Thanks very much!

[Kenn Hoekstra]

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--Kenn

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