Driveby post

[blamebrampton]

Because it's 2 and I was up after 4 last night watching tennis after the Grand Prix. Oops.

On the train this morning, two people from a publisher I used to work for chatting loudly about someone I vaguely knew.

"Yeah, he's moved from Sydney to San Francisco. So he's gone from the gayest city in the world to the gayest city in the world."

Never a truer word spoken. Back fine, camera bought, cats adorable. More later.

Comments

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

Hopefully I'll be moving to the gayest city in the world in less than one year! *fingers crossed*

[pingrid.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I'm jealous! I've only been to SF once, when I was nine, but I remember loving it even then. *fingers crossed for you*

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

I've wanted to live there since my first visit in childhood, and if my husband gets a residency there, my dream (and his) will come true.

[pingrid.livejournal.com]

How exciting! When do you find out?

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

He will interview in December, and hopefully we'll find out early next year. :)

SF is so beautiful and vibrant (have you been there, Brammerita?) I feel excitement in the air every time I go there, just like when I visit Manhattan. It's super-expensive, so our place will be small, but we'll be in the city and that's what matters.

[pingrid.livejournal.com]

I really hope he gets it!

Just out of curiosity, how expensive is super-expensive? I've heard that before but I don't know the figures, and for some obscure reason housing cost really interests me. :)

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

A quick look at Craigslist shows prices from $1900 to $2400 (and up!) for a 2 bedroom apartment.

[pingrid.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's about the same as here, that's interesting. *files away info in housing nerd part of brain*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I have indeed! It's one of the three cities in the US that I know I could live in (the other two being New York and Berkley). I have my suspicions about Boston and Seattle, but am yet to visit them.

I do have to say that although there are more gays in SF, there is a higher concentration in Sydney, so the man was not really wrong. And both cities are bloody hilly, though I;ve never met a street in Sydney I had to walk down on a series of diagonals, as I did one winter's morning in SF.

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

G loves Berkeley: it's where he attended college.

Seattle is loads of fun, but the weather is dreadful 8-9 months out of the year. I lived there for about 8 months in 1990 during the grunge explosion.

Boston... well, it's not a bad place to live, and there's a lot of great things about it, but frankly I find it kind of boring. I wouldn't want to stay here forever. Hope you visit, though!

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

[*is affronted*]

it is not dreadful. not anymore than SF and the perpetual fog is dreadful. just takes getting used to. the bluest skies there's ever been are in seattle. song says so [*smirks*]

not really affronted, but i did grow up there and love it dearly. i now live in the third windiest city in the world. i prefer the rain :P

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

What are the first two windiest? (I may need to avoid them). Still working on the Bath to-do list, week has gone spac, in the next few days!

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

winnepeg and chicago. both much colder, too.

bath is filling up fast, but i haven't a good sense of brighton. go to the lanes i guess. i only have a day there. so should be able to occupy myself.

do know there is an exhibition in leeds while i'm there on hollywood armor. drats and double drat. weta will have a bunch of stuff there and i won't get a chance to see it [*pouts*]

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

Nothing beats the summer in Seattle... I just couldn't take the constant darkness in the winter, being a Southern California native. And I did love living there: all those hills, and so many things to do. :)

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

oh, well the darkness is latitude, not weather, and definitely something one has to get used to.

but isn't boston as far north? aren't the days just as short?

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

Boston is as far north. But it's the cloud cover in Seattle that made it dark, I thought. There were months when it looked like 3 in the afternoon all day.

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

true. the clouds certainly don't help. guess if you grow up there you don't really notice it that much. [*shrugs*]