The City of Neighborhoods

Here in San Francisco, hippies movement started. Proclaiming love for everyone, San Francisco hosted the Love Fest this year and drew a crowd of people from all over the country. This city has strong grassroots movements in which Ross Mirkarimi, a member of the Green Party, was appointed to represent District 5, one of the most diverse districts ethnically speaking.

San Francisco is also known as "a city of neighborhoods" in which two distinct neighborhoods are separated by only a street between them. Take Geary Boulevard for example. Japantown is at the North of Geary Boulevard while Fillmore or the so-called Harlem of the West is at the South of the street. San Francisco has the largest Chinatown in the United States. It has a large population of foreign-born as well as parents or grandparents who are foreign-born. I can quite confidently say if you ask someone randomly about where their parents or grandparents are from, they will answer something other than San Francisco or the United States.