Where is the best place to meet decent and interesting people just to chat with in SF?
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Leave the financial district where most of the big hotels and department stores are located and go to the neighborhoods where most of us live and play. The City is not that big but the diversity within it's 49 sq.miles is amazing. Certain neighborhoods have more tourist than others. Depending on your interests you should be able to meet many interesting people on streetcars, sidewalk cafes, parks, coffee bars, etc. Generally, you'll find students living, shopping and socializing in the Haight/Ashbury, young families with toddlers and strollers in Noe Valley busy with errands and shopping, The Mission, Chinatown and North Beach are ethnically diverse with their many restaurants and shops where you could practice your Spanish, Mandarin or Italian to name a few. Other areas include the Castro with a large gay oriented infrastructure. Upper Filmore, Japantown, Polk Street, the Sunset, Union Street, the Richmond are other places of interest . Also, once you are here there are many free papers (SF Weekly, The Bay Guardian, etc.) that give listing of local events. They're easily found on busy street corners in the metal stands. This is only a small offering of what is available in our wonderful City. Hope you find what you're searching for!
dunno cos i live in the uk..sorry
Up the Falls Road in Belfast. That's where SF (Sinn Fein) have their HQ (Headquarters)
if your referring to gays then that's your place
Join Bay Area Linkup. It's a social networking group that holds dozens of fun group events each week, ranging from a simple meet for coffee to book groups to museum tours to hiking trips to wine tasting to salsa dancing. There are no limits on membership, but most of the members tend to be single professionals in the 30-50 something age group.
There are definitely social rules though. pure Emily Post about not flaking on events you sign up for, behaving politely while you are there, etc., and members who break the etiquette rules get kicked out pretty quickly. It's kind of a quiet group too, they don't advertise, new members usually just find out about it by word of mouth from friends. That all makes it a fairly safe, friendly, and reliable way to meet like-minded people in the city. I've met a lot of really terrific people this way, and it's a lot of fun.
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