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0 pointsrayiner14y ago0 comments

The stereotypical San Franciscan gets up at 7am, wears business-casual to work, and his or her hobbies include biking and wine/food. The stereotypical New Yorker gets up at 9am, wears a suit to work, and his or her hobbies include alcoholism and chain smoking.

I'm joking, but only kind of. I spent this summer working in both NYC and the Bay area and it was like a night and day difference. NYC is so much more hierarchical, image conscious and anxiously intense.

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kingkawn14y ago

Hmm, the only people I know who wear suits are corporate lawyers and wall st folks. everyone else is probably more dressed up than san francisco, but that's because there's fashion industry presence in the city more than the requirements of their respective jobs. San Francisco is a beautiful small town.

pork14y ago

A fairly large department here at Google in MV has "business Fridays", where people dress up in suits for a laugh.

dev_jim14y ago

I do enjoy generalizations.

Wall Street check. Biking check. Wine/Food check. 9AM wrong, but 8:30 is close enough. Suit wrong. Alcoholism wrong. Chain smoking dead wrong.

zasz14y ago

He did say it was a joking generalization. Do you have a different joking generalization of what New Yorkers are like?

tikhonj14y ago

Heh, it's funny how that matches my perceptions of the west coast as well. The only difference is in getting up at 7am--nobody at work gets there before lunch. Of course, it's a tech startup, but even the medium-sized (~600 people) enterprise software company had plenty of people coming in around 11-12.

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