Maybe I have the wrong friends in San Francisco, but I didn’t see how we were supposed to get by without a car. I’ll admit there are a ton more cool urban neighborhoods there and we could walk for coffee (something I’m amazingly able to do here), but for them to get to jobs and school, they still had to get in cars or hop on motorcycles or whatever.
I’ll agree that mass transit seems much more effective there than in San Diego, but I’m still not sure it’s everything it’s cracked up to me. I haven’t exactly heard SF’ans sing the praises of their busses either.