A couple months ago the SFist (San Francisco’s great replicant of NYC’s Gothamist.com) asked to interview me. Having lived in San Francisco since 1992 it was a real honor, and chore to try and express why San Francisco, a town I thought I’d weather out the early 90’s recession, turned into a city I expect to be my forever home.

The interview can be read at the SFist and here’s a quote from my days of yore.

Without any good job prospects after graduating from college in ‘92, I decided if I was going to have to struggle for work why not San Francisco for a year. I loved the Sierras and the City. In the first year I was here I signed up at 7 temp agencies and still barely got work. I finally got an admin job for $16,800, which I got bumped up to $18,000 after I passed on my healthcare.

Thanks to Emily Cox, Jackson West and SFist. I wasn’t born in Ess Eff, nor was I here for Loma Prieta, but I’m really feeling like an honorary native son right about now.