How Long Does It Take to Become a San Franciscan?
The journey to calling the Bay home
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8 min readMar 4, 2020
San Francisco is my city and I love it. But our 16-year relationship — at first superficial, then rocky, and at times tumultuous — took a long time to gel.
My husband’s job brought us here in 2003. We showed up with a small moving truck, a 10-month-old baby and, admittedly, a “what the hell are…
