San Francisco

In case you haven't figured out from my posts, there are two sides to the shining city by the sea: the Disneyland version, for tourists, conventioneers, and the relatively wealthy, and the behind the scenes, working City. The Disneyland version is roughly the northeast, downtown to the theater district, northward to Fisherman's Wharf and westward through the hilltops of Pacific Heights and Presidio Heights; along the edge of Land's End.

Bayview, the Mission, the Tenderloin, and the Sunset... that's where the people who have to pretend they love being servants (or know no other existence) live. Why, out in the Sunset (as a quasi-City Official calls it "the County"), there's even a faint smattering of what might even be called "middle class." It's a faint smattering, because mostly what tourists, conventioneers and the wealthy need are smiling servants.