San Francisco

"We built this city on rock n' rrroooooooollll!"

– The most disappointing song ever.

"That sweater? That haircut? I think you'd really like San Francisco."

– Brad Jones, The Cinema Snob.

Introduction

San Francisco (AKA the City and County of San Francisco) is an American city in Northern California, covering almost 47 square miles. It is the seventeenth most populous city in the United States and the second most expensive American city to find residence in next to New York City with its average rent of $10,000 per week. The city has been a major center of liberal activism, having been a location synonymous with the hippie counterculture movement, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement in opposition of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, the Summer of Love, and the gay rights movement. Rapid urbanization came as a result of the California Gold Rush, and the city acted as a port for early Eastern Asian immigration, specifically Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. Many of the state's most iconic landmarks are located in and along the borders of the city, including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Transamerica Pyramid, the second tallest skycraper in the skyline next to the Salesforce Tower, the former headquarters of the Transamerica corporation, and the winner of the 1993 Most Phallic Architecture award. Aside from being engulfed in a thick layer of fog that almost belittles the smog in Beijing, San Francisco also served as the meeting location for the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945, which could've gone very differently in the ElectroVerse if that proud bastard Alfred Hawthorne hadn't come bursting in!