I used to spend 3 days every 6 weeks in San Francisco but my area was North Beach, Chinatown, the Wharf and the Mission district for music buying....great latin music stores....I've never been an urban guy so 3 days eating the food and browsing City Lights bookstore was all I could take...back to my cabin in the Sierra's...I've never had a desire to live in San Francisco at all...it was the last stop on my music tours after Davis California and Berkley....would start in Tahoe and do shows in 7 cities and go home...great circuit in the 70s..great memories...I would take in a show at the Palace of fine arts every trip.....I was stationed in the Bay Area for 6 months waiting for orders to Vietnam and was in the City almost every night at Winterland and Philmore West or the Berkley Ampitheater....saw amazing concert lineups....but the Navy sent me there....lived on base with a rented Ford Pinto to get into the city from Treasure Island.