Good place for a Quaker

Everyone we talk to about moving to SF says how beautiful it is, how much we'll like, all that stuff. That's great. It's nice to hear.

One guy, however, told me yesterday that first, it's the most beautiful city in the country. Then he decided it was the most beautiful city in the world. I qualify that statement by noting that he's from New York and lives in Boston, two ugly cities. But he went on to talk about sitting on the bay with his sister, looking at the whole city in about August of 1989, discussing its grandeur. Then, of course, the '89 earthquake. I guess some of the houses on his sister's street were leveled because they'd been built on landfill. Fortunately, her house was on bedrock and only had some structural damage. Still, he said, earthquakes, damage and destruction.

I understand people being reluctant to move to SF b/c of earthquakes, but to go off on the topic while discussing how beautiful of a city it is to a guy who's about to move his family there seems misplaced. Still, it should be a good city for a family of Quakers.