Just for fun. Six questions, eighteen possible answers. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
All eighteen possible answers
- Bayview-Hunters Point – Bayview-Hunters Point is the city's southeastern corner, along the bay south of Islais Creek.
- Bernal Heights – Bernal Heights is a hilltop neighborhood in San Francisco's 94110 ZIP code, centered on Bernal Hill and Bernal Heights Park off Bernal Heights Boulevard.
- Castro – The Castro centers on Castro Street between Market and 19th streets, with Harvey Milk Plaza at the Castro and Market corner.
- Chinatown – San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest in North America, established in the 1840s and rebuilt after 1906 in a deliberately ornamental style that was partly a survival strategy: make it a destination and the city cannot push the community out.
- Civic Center & Tenderloin – The Main Library and the Asian Art Museum face Civic Center Plaza, across from City Hall, and host some of the city's best free events for families.
- Dogpatch – Dogpatch is a small, flat, former-industrial neighborhood on the bay side of Potrero Hill, running along Third Street between Mission Bay and the 22nd Street Caltrain station.
- Excelsior – The Excelsior sits in the southern part of the city, with Mission Street as its commercial main street.
- Financial District – The Financial District is the city's office core, a canyon of towers between Market Street and the waterfront, built on Gold Rush landfill over what used to be Yerba Buena Cove.
- Fisherman's Wharf – Fisherman's Wharf is the most visited and least beloved part of San Francisco, and both facts are fair.
- Glen Park – Glen Park is a small, village-like neighborhood around Diamond and Chenery streets, with Glen Park BART station at its edge.
- Golden Gate Park – Golden Gate Park is 1,017 acres of what used to be sand dunes, laid out from 1871 and planted into existence by hand.
- Haight-Ashbury – Haight-Ashbury centers on Haight Street, known around the world for the 1967 Summer of Love, and sits beside the eastern end of Golden Gate Park and the Panhandle.
- Hayes Valley – Hayes Valley is what happens when you take down a freeway.
- Lakeshore – Lakeshore wraps around Lake Merced in the southwest corner of the city.
- Lone Mountain & USF – Lone Mountain/USF is the hilltop campus of the University of San Francisco and the blocks around it, just north of the Panhandle.
- Marina – The Marina is flat, which in San Francisco is close to a miracle.
- Mission Bay – Mission Bay is San Francisco's newest neighborhood, built on former rail yards south of Mission Creek.
- Mission District – The Mission is the warmest, sunniest neighborhood in San Francisco, and that is not a marketing line: Twin Peaks and Bernal Hill physically block the fog, so this side of town can run ten to twenty degrees warmer than the Sunset on the same afternoon. It grew up around Mission San Francisco de Asís, founded in 1776 and still standing on 16th Street, and it has been the heart of the city's Latino community for generations.
- Nob Hill – Nob Hill is the summit the railroad barons built on, and then lost: the 1906 fire took every mansion but one, and the grand hotels and Grace Cathedral went up in their place.
- Noe Valley – Noe Valley sits in a bowl behind Twin Peaks, which is why it gets sun when half the city does not, and why it filled up with families.
- North Beach – North Beach is the old Italian quarter and the city's literary neighborhood, the place where the Beats read poetry upstairs at City Lights and where you can still buy a salami from a counter that has been selling them since 1896.
- Pacific Heights – Pacific Heights is the grand one: mansions on a ridge between Union and California Streets, built from the 1870s by people who wanted to be above the city and stayed there.
- Portola – San Bruno Avenue is the Portola's commercial corridor, and Muni's 8 and 9 lines stop along it at Silver Ave, Felton St, Bacon St and Paul Ave.
- Potrero Hill – Potrero Hill is a sunny hilltop of small houses and big views, a neighborhood that grew up around shipyards and light industry and was settled by Russian and Slovenian families after 1906, when the hill's bedrock spared it from the worst of the quake.
- Presidio – The Presidio is not really a neighborhood, it is a 1,500-acre national park inside the city that happens to have houses, restaurants and a bowling alley in it.
- Richmond District – The Richmond runs from the Presidio to Ocean Beach in a flat grid of Edwardians and stucco houses, built after 1906 on what maps used to call the Outside Lands.
- Russian Hill – Russian Hill is steep, quiet and residential, a hill of Edwardian apartment buildings and hidden garden lanes with some of the best free views in the city.
- SoMa – SoMa, short for South of Market, is downtown's engine room: the convention center, the ballpark, the big museums, and the headquarters of several companies you have heard of, all on wide blocks that were industrial a century ago and are half construction site now.
- South Beach – South Beach is the newest neighborhood on this list: a stretch of the waterfront south of the Bay Bridge that was rail yards and piers until the 1990s, and is now mid-rise apartments, a ballpark and a promenade.
- Sunset District – The Sunset is the city's biggest residential district: mile after mile of pastel rowhouses laid over sand dunes between the park and Lake Merced, built mostly between the 1920s and 1950s, and now one of the most diverse and family-heavy parts of San Francisco.
- West of Twin Peaks – West of Twin Peaks is a group of quiet residential neighborhoods on the west slope below Twin Peaks, including West Portal, St.
- Western Addition & Fillmore – The Western Addition lies west of Van Ness Avenue and takes in the Fillmore, once called the Harlem of the West for its jazz clubs, and Cathedral Hill.