Growing up in a North Bay suburb, I always referred to San Francisco as “the city,” as if there were no others. This Californian cultural hub is where I snuck off to see 1980s new wave bands or drink coffee in cafes once frequented by Beat poets. A week after graduating from college, I moved into a Victorian flat in the heart of the Haight-Ashbury district, where Summer of Love devotees, clad in tie-dye with flowers in their hair, still congregate. A pagoda built in 1915 at the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo In subsequent years as a journalist in and around San Francisco for Reuters and other news organizations, the high tech hub – also the headquarters of the largest appellate court in the U.S., the Ninth Circuit – has been a perch for me to cov...
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