[FatherOfCurses]

>The city is temperate and brightly colored, with plenty of pleasant trees, but on every corner it speaks to you in an aggressively alien nonsense. Here the world automatically assumes that instead of wanting food or drinks or a new phone or car, what you want is some kind of arcane B2B service for your startup. You are not a passive consumer. You are making something.

I recently traveled to San Francisco and as an outsider this was pretty much the reaction I had.

[easton]

I've been to SF three times, and each time the oddest thing was going down 101 from the airport and seeing cURL commands and "you sped past that just like we sped past Snowflake" and such on billboards. It's like being on another planet where everyone is at work.

(on the other hand, in DC there's ads on the metro for new engine upgrades for fighter jets, and i've gotten used to that.)

[esafak]

And in LA, every billboard is about Hollywood. It's something you just have to take in your stride.

I do get that it is not nice to be constantly reminded of work. Trees would make a nicer view.

[jcgrillo]

I don't miss billboards. Cows, trees, mountains, and lumberyards make better scenery.