Assisted Living in San Francisco, CA

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Facts about San Francisco

San Francisco is also known as: Frisco, SanFran, The City, Baghdad by the Bay, and SF.

San Francisco has been featured in movies like: Bullitt (1968), Vertigo (1958), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), and So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993).

And some of the notable people born here have been: Gavin Newsom (politician), David Stafford (programmer), Patty Hearst (actor), Jon Miller (announcer and actor), and Christopher Langan (bouncer).

San Francisco is home to the following sports teams: San Francisco Giants, San Francisco 49ers, and Golden Gate Wrestling Club.

Popular neighborhoods in San Francisco include: Alamo Square, San Francisco, Anza Vista, Haight-Ashbury, Balboa Park, St. Francis Wood, Hunters Point, Bernal Heights, The Castro, Western Addition, Crocker-Amazon, Mission Bay, Dogpatch, Chinatown, Civic Center, Cole Valley, Duboce Triangle, Russian Hill, Marina District, Diamond Heights, and Mission District.

And featured attractions of San Francisco: Mission District, Sunset District, Richmond District, Visitacion Valley, and Excelsior District.

San Francisco is represented by Supervisors Edwin M. Lee.

San Francisco making it the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in California, after Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose, and the 13th-most populous city in the United States-with a Census-estimated 2014 population of 852,469. The city and its surrounding areas are known as the San Francisco Bay Area, which is a part of the larger OMB designated San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland combined statistical area, the fifth most populous in the nation with an estimated population of 8.6 million.San Francisco (Spanish for Saint Francis) was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asis named for St. Francis of Assisi a few miles away. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856.After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "hippie" counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.San Francisco is a popular tourist destination, known for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture, and landmarks including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, and its Chinatown district. San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Gap Inc., Salesforce.com, Dropbox, Reddit, Square, Inc., Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, and Craigslist. It has several nicknames, including "The City by the Bay", "Fog City", "San Fran", and "Frisco", as well as antiquated ones like "The City that Knows How," "Baghdad by the Bay," and "The Paris of the West."

Population shifts in San Francisco