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• The number of homeless people living in San Francisco is astounding. And they stay right there in the heart of the city, a few meters away from the chic luxury stores. One second you are looking at a Gucci shop window and the next thing you see is people playing dices for money on the street in front of an erotic club.
• Only in California you can pay at a farmer’s market with a credit card.
• You can find soft drinks and junk food in a sports equipment shop (and in many other places they don’t really belong to).
• Having a walk in the bay area (any place beside San Francisco) feels weird. You are the only one walking and there is absolutely nothing but houses and fast foods for miles.
• The weather is amazingly good.
• Product features include a list of “No X”, where X can be just about anything. Does not matter whether “X” is provenly bad or not. I guess it’s very easy to start a collective psychosis: just put “No potatoes” on a product and everybody will start worrying about potatoes.
• People are tall.
• Cisco has offices in Cisco Way.
• Traffic is awful. However when there is not traffic driving is great.
• There are 2 kinds of people: those with an iPhone and those with some other smartphone. The latter are a minority.
• Halloween is a serious thing. People don’t mind waiting hour-long queues to get into bars.
• Everything come in XL size. 8 lanes highways, seriously?
• Most beers taste like hop juice, let alone IPAs.
• iPhone covers are used to express your personality.
• Nobody drinks water. Only soft drinks, power drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks. At least it needs to contain added vitamins, colorants, and come in a grillion flavors.
• When you go out for dinner you don’t choose the restaurant, you choose the nationality.
• In San Francisco people stop you to tell you how much they appreciate your look.

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