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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 04:18:42 JST Adrianna Tan

   If we don’t eventually move to New York, I think living in Oakland, spending time in SF, and going to LA at least once a month will be a good balance to what I’m looking for. Mainly, I’m looking for urban life with a proliferation of amazing immigrant foods, and LA has that in spades. Though I don’t like car culture

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 04:19:56 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Viss

     @Viss yep!

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     Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 04:19:57 JST Viss

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     @skinnylatte if you can ever make it down to san diego, the mexican food will wreck you. ping me so i can make sure you get burritoed properly :D

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 04:20:35 JST Adrianna Tan

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     New York’s transit and walkability and boroughs and culture and whole situation (the way the city is set up etc) is still much more intuitively comfortable for me

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 04:23:39 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I think individual west coast cities have great restaurants in each cuisine, but LA has whole scenes from each cuisine from snacks to supper to mains to regional foods that I haven’t seen outside of their source lands to new developments in contemporary versions to their cuisine to second and third gen takes on those cuisines to meaningful fusion between all of them made by people who know and care. So that’s very very exciting.

     I always say I feel that LA mirrors some of the great food cities I know and love in terms of variety and experiences and quality

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 04:28:43 JST Adrianna Tan

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     After 7.5 years in San Francisco, I feel like my body is going through a period of extreme rejection of this type of urban life. There’s something about San Francisco that just doesn’t work for me, never has, the way New York City always made sense to me the first time I visited both cities. I have ups and downs with it, but I think I need to stop making it try to work for me, when it simply does not, and that’s okay.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 04:33:03 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I feel like I’m already ‘annoying New York person’ without living there so if and when I finally live there I can truly flourish.

     As a Lover Of Cities, New York is still my choice for the city I want to live in, anywhere in the world.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 04:37:25 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • James Gilbert

     @jgrg haha I was just posting about this

     LA’s street food culture is the best and most similar to what I can see in Asia and Mexico

     https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115770439418846332

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     James Gilbert (jgrg@mstdn.science)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 04:37:26 JST James Gilbert

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     @skinnylatte I watched the Steve Martin documentary last year and was amazed that he never learned to cook because he ate out every night of his life, mostly in LA, since leaving home. I think that would be miserable here in the UK.

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     Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈 (recursive@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 06:24:05 JST Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

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     @skinnylatte right about as I was deciding to stop having a car and move to Seattle, I was thinking about the ways in which New York would be even better

     Seattle is pretty good for me, but the advantage of even more density feels obvious

     It took me a long time to understand my own feelings about cities, but now I talk to friends who live in suburbs and I'm constantly mentioning how relaxing it is to not have a car

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 06:26:43 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • James Gilbert

     @jgrg haha, Singapore / Malaysia / Thailand are full of people who cook better than I can, and I think I’m a good cook. It’s just such a different experience.

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     James Gilbert (jgrg@mstdn.science)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 06:26:45 JST James Gilbert

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     @skinnylatte I eat a meal prepared by someone else less than once a week. I take sandwiches (actually filled pitta breads) to work. I love cooking, and find eating out somewhat stressful. I get annoyed by dishes which have been cooked worse than I can.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 07:15:40 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @jgrg I was in London a while a decade ago. Lots of variety. But yeah I get what you mean

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     James Gilbert (jgrg@mstdn.science)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 07:15:41 JST James Gilbert

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     @skinnylatte It's not all bad. There is now more street food, sold from food trucks. Jack's Gelato here in Cambridge started selling from a bicycle rickshaw under an umbrella on Silver Street bridge, and now has two shops with people queuing outside in winter. Expensive, but all made by them. The cafe and bakery round the corner from me makes great bread.

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     James Gilbert (jgrg@mstdn.science)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 07:15:42 JST James Gilbert

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     @skinnylatte I think one of the problems in the UK is that few chefs own their business. Restaurants are chains, or the owner isn't the chef. Cooking has culturally been a menial occupation. Rents are high, pay isn't good.