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The Bay Area is cursed - by Sasha Chapin

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The Bay Area is cursed xoxo Sasha Chapin Oct 08, 2025 1,126 222 153 Share Three years ago, I moved to the Bay Area, and I vowed to figure out the social scene. Three years later, I’ve become an introvert who becomes an extrovert again when I step off a plane at LaGuardia. I can’t get a grip on the region’s ways. I talk to strangers at the climbing gym and it’s like I’ve startled a bobcat. The Bay Area has a curse. It is the curse of Aboutness. Social life here is not regarded as something people do naturally, an organic element of being. It has to be About something. In New York, it’s an impor

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