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- I moved from Connecticut to San Francisco more than 30 years ago.
- I was surprised by several things about living in San Francisco, like the chilly summers and people's shyness about crossing the street.
- I'm still not used to all of the cultural differences between the East Coast and West Coast.
I visited California just once before I moved from the East Coast in 1987.
It was December, and I was delighted by how much warmer San Francisco was than my home in Connecticut. So, I reasoned, it would be really hot when I moved west in August.
More than 30 years later, I realize I was completely wrong about that, and plenty of my other assumptions about the West Coast. I love living in California, but my first couple of years required some adjustment.
Here are the things that surprised me the most about San Francisco.