Asian Life in San Francisco | Asian American Poll

ASIAN LIFE IN SAN FRANCISCO
(Updated Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, 06:39:10 AM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which San Francisco Bay area offers the best environment for Asian Americans?
Downtown SF | 47%
East Bay | 31%
Marin County | 8%
South San Francisco | 14%

What's the best thing about living in the San Francisco Bay area?
Breathtaking Scenic Beauty | 40%
Clean Air | 19%
Lots of Fine Chinese Restaurants | 15%
Asians Everywhere | 18%
Great Universities, Skiing and Wine | 8%

What's the worst thing about living in the San Francisco Bay area?
No Summer Weather | 12%
Perpetual Gridlock | 40%
Too Crowded with Asians | 1%
Shortage of Decent Housing | 47%

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AC and TSJ,

[They are definitely more friendly than you typical asian girl in the USA mainland. Could be the environment on the island.]

Honolulu has an Asian population + mixed Asian population (quite a few are 1/2 and 1/2 Asians- e.g. 1/2 Chinese and 1/2 Japanese) of probably around 55-60%.
So you shouldn't have any trouble getting "Asian booty" from nice Hawaii girls. There's alot to go around!
There is a Chinatown, but you probably won't see nearly as many Chinese girls in Hawaii than SF. The two largest Asian groups are Japanese and Filipinos.
The Japanese population is about 4 times larger and the Filipino's 3 times larger than the Chinese population.

If you dig nice & cute hapa girls like yours truely, Hawaii is definitely the place to be.
Just make sure you don't take em all if you move there before me. :P

And... if you're not too conservative, you might want to check out some of those 1/2 Japanese+Portugese and 1/2 Filipino+Spanish+Chinese mixes... some of em can be pretty damn hot!

Jay... the hapa Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 22:59:10 (PST)

[I met a few Hawiian hapa girls in college. They are definitely more friendly than you typical asian girl in the USA mainland. Could be the environment on the island.]

Hawaii hapa girls RULE!!!
Yes, Hawaii girls in general are friendlier than mainland girls.
Whether it's Asian, White, Hispanic, hapa, etc.

[Once I figure out how to move my office from NYC. Hawaii is the next port of call for me.]

Me too!!! Getting the hell out of Texhole when I finish up here.

Jay... home sweet home Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 22:44:50 (PST)

Steve:
Cool whites? Like I said earlier, have fun with all the broke-ass East Coast liberal artsy-wannabe types who are in search of "diversity." Bay Area has a net outflow of white and black people.

American Taliban Johnny Walker (I wonder if being named after hard liquor gave him lots of trouble in life) was a white guy raised by multicultural left-leaning parents up in Marin County, who then completely rejected the multiculturalist philosophy, his dad's homosexuality, etc., to go fight in an fascist army which was opposed to all those things. Marin County has 5% Asian population. But that has nothing much to do with Bay Area Asian experience. And besides, the left-liberal philosophy that produced Johnny Walker (the boy, not the beverage) is more entrenched in LA with your cultural center of Hollywood.

By the way, you still haven't addressed the housing oversupply in LA. Presuming efficient markets, high housing costs implies high demand. Oversupply will lead to falling prices and implies low demand. Bay Area has rising housing prices which aren't the result of a bubble as in Japan (shrinking population, fixed land area, but prices kept going up), but of population increase. Econ 101.
T.H. Lien Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 18:32:11 (PST)

I have to admit the Bay Area sucks. The Asians there are so ghettoed, driving down-trodden cars, and living in neighborhoods that resemble the places Hispanics in LA live.In the Bay, you can really feel that the ones who are in charge of business, politics, media are the Whites, not Asians. In LA, it's different. Asians own businesses, drive good cars, own large houses. Sure, LA has the Asian-Hispanic ethnice tensions, but at least I can say, Asians are not ghettoed like those up north.
TOHELLandBACK321 Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 14:58:19 (PST)

Steve (AM in LA),

I am currently a AF in LA who used to live in the Bay Area. I find much of what you say to be questionable.

Nonetheless, racism in the workplace is an important issue to me. Can you be more specific about the glass ceilings in the Bay Area (in which industries it is more prevalent in, etc.)? If the problem is really that apparant, perhaps something can be done. (Even if it isn't as apparant, something would need to be done--it just wouldn't be as easy.)

penelope Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 12:51:11 (PST)

Steve, you are just too funny, man. There are more Asian owned business in the Bay than anywhere else. Most of those computer companies are run by Asians. The Bay is more racist than LA?! I don't remember the last time we had a riot here. Koreans and blacks absolutely hate each other down in Smell Lay. It's just like the old south. All the neighborhoods are segregated - South Central for blacks, SGV for Chinese, OC for Viets, WestCo for Pinoys, East LA for Mex. You have super racist towns like Simi Valley. Here in Oaktown and Hayward, we have blacks and Asians living right next to each other. The cities are not all racially divided like that.

Mex and Asians get along? In El Monte, they fight all the time. Do you even live in LA? It seems like you don't even know what's going on in your hometown. The only place I would live in in So Cal is right on the beach, at either Laguna Niguel or Newport. I can't stand the inland areas there. It's so hot. I live right at the base of the SM Bridge up here, and it's just great.

You know, if you want to have a sensible conversation, I'm down for it, but once you have to resort to name calling, your credibility just shoots out the door. And also, if you were really serious enough, maybe you would leave your e-mail too.
TSJ Eric@KristinKreuk.net Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 11:40:50 (PST)

I am moving out today -Woohoo! Never want to look back at this dump again. This place sucks bigtime for all the reasons mentioned and more. The housing sucks and the city itself is dangerous. I would rather live anywhere else than here. East Coast baby!
SF Sucks Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 11:21:18 (PST)

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