You know you really live in the Bay Area when . . .

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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(10) Your annual household income is $140,000 and you cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment.

(9)	When asked about your commute, you answer in time, not distance.

(8)	You have a special drawer devoted to t-shirts with the company logo.

(7)	You remember the locations of all the Fry's in the area, and which companies your friends work for that are going public within the next year, but you don't know the name of your child's third grade teacher.

(6)	You work six miles from your home and spend two hours a day commuting and $40.00 a week on gas.

(5)	You live on some of the richest farmland in the world but most of what you eat comes from South America.

(4)	You cringe when you see people in suits at your office, wondering if someone in management will make you stop wearing those bunny slippers.

(3)	You plan your vacation so that you don't have to drive back in commute traffic.

(2)	You could sell your home and live like a king in 99% of the rest of the world, but don't because you could never move back.

(1)	You have worked at the same job for a year and people refer to you as an "old-timer."
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:smiley:

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  • You’re tempted to shoot anyone who says “Hey, let’s go down to Firsherman’s Wharf.”
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Someone sent me this a couple years ago, still rings true however :wink:
You Know You Are In San Francisco, when:
Your co-worker tells you they have 8 body piercings but none are visible.

When someone says TENDERLOIN - you don’t think of steak. You think of danger.

You make over $100,000 and still can’t afford a house.

You take a bus and are shocked at 2 people carrying on a conversation in English.

You never bother looking at the MUNI line schedule because
you know the drivers have never seen it.

You can’t remember… is pot illegal?

You have a very strong opinion where your coffee beans are grown and can taste the difference between Sumatra and Ethiopian.

A really great parking space can move you to tears.

You know that anyone wearing shorts in April is just visiting from Ohio.

You assume every company offers domestic partner benefits.

Your child’s 3rd grade teacher has two pierced ears, a nose ring and is named “Breeze.” And, after telling that to a friend, they still need to ask if the teacher is male or female.

You are thinking of taking an adult class but you can’t decide between yoga, aromatherapy, conversational mandarin or a building your own web site class.

You haven’t been to Fisherman’s Wharf since the first month you moved to SF and you couldn’t figure out how to drive to Coit Tower if your life depended on it.

A man walks on MUNI in full leather regalia. You don’t notice.

A woman walks on MUNI with live poultry. You don’t notice.

You think any guy with a George Clooney haircut must be visiting from the midwest.

You know that any woman with a George Clooney haircut is not a tourist.

You keep a list of companies to boycott.

Your hairdresser is straight, your plumber is gay, the woman who delivers your mail is straight and your Mary Kay Lady is a guy in drag.

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Your building is sold for the third time since you’ve lived in it.

(that actually happened to me I just met my third new owner, the next time Im buying it myself, just for the stability)

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Yup, that’s the place.

For S.F.:

  • No one knows how many blocks they’ll have to walk from their car to their residence on any given day, but everyone knows the lunch special at thiry different restaurants

For Silicon Valley

  • Stock ‘Options’ are not optional

  • The words ‘start up’ in a conversation never refer to a car.

  • One can easily distinguish between an engineer and a marketing rep: engineers have shirts with logos like Intel, Sun, etc. while marketers have Polo, Gucci, etc.

  • Telecommuting means a cell phone with one thousand prepaid minutes and a laptop with a three hour battery life, to use in the car while stuck in traffic.

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Hey Im in marketing and resent being lumped in with these people…despite the accuracy of that statement :smiley:

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Well, is it?

:smiley:

These are great!

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Can’t you bike to work? Or will that trash your bunny slippers? :slight_smile:

Kate, who lived in Palo Alto for a year and came home happily, very happily.