NYC vs. SF?

And speaking of New York, The Front Steps has a battle brewing over whether to live in New York City or San Francisco. (Naturally, we choose more modern SF. While we heart NY with its thin pizzas, tall and aggressive men, supposed sparkling conversation, and phenomenal buildings, California, as they used to say, totally shreds. And, as we've mentioned before, anything east of [the] 5 freeway petrifies us.)

It's a strange debate, one that gets bandied about during drunken bar conversation all of the time. Strange because who moves here thinking they'll reside in a compact version of New York, and not a better version of California?