Driving Downtown - Chinatown 4K - San Francisco USA
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Driving Downtown Neighborhoods - Chinatown - San Francisco California USA - Episode 15.
Starting Point: Grant Avenue - goo.gl/maps/Rc... . Neighborhood: Chinatown - goo.gl/maps/6B... .
The oldest and largest Chinatown outside of Asia. The Chinatown in San Francisco, California, (Chinese: 唐人街) is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese community outside Asia. It is the oldest of the four notable Chinatowns in the city. Since its establishment in 1848, it has been highly important and influential in the history and culture of ethnic Chinese immigrants in North America. Chinatown is an enclave that continues to retain its own customs, languages, places of worship, social clubs, and identity. There are two hospitals, numerous parks and squares, a post office, and other infrastructure. While recent immigrants and the elderly choose to live in here because of the availability of affordable housing and their familiarity with the culture, the place is also a major tourist attraction, drawing more visitors annually than the Golden Gate Bridge.
San Francisco
San Francisco (SF), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the most densely settled large city in the state of California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City.
A popular tourist destination, San Francisco is 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, Fisherman's Wharf, 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., Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, and Craigslist. It has several nicknames, including "The City by the Bay", "Fog City", "San Fran", and "Frisco", as well as older ones like "The City that Knows How", "Baghdad by the Bay", "The Paris of the West", or simply "The City". As of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings.
The last 20 years have seen two booms driven by the internet industry. First was the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, startup companies invigorated the San Francisco economy. Large numbers of entrepreneurs and computer application developers moved into the city, followed by marketing, design, and sales professionals, changing the social landscape as once-poorer neighborhoods became increasingly gentrified. Demand for new housing and office space ignited a second wave of high-rise development, this time in the South of Market district. By 2000, the city's population reached new highs, surpassing the previous record set in 1950. When the bubble burst in 2001, many of these companies folded and their employees were laid off. Yet high technology and entrepreneurship remain mainstays of the San Francisco economy. By the mid 2000s (decade), the social media boom had begun, with San Francisco becoming a popular location for tech offices and a popular place to live for people employed in Silicon Valley companies such as Apple and Google.
Economy
San Francisco has a diversified service economy, with employment spread across a wide range of professional services, including financial services, tourism, and (increasingly) high technology.
Sports
Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants have played in San Francisco since moving from New York in 1958. The San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) were the longest-tenured major professional sports franchise in the city until moving in 2013.
Culture and Contemporary Life
Although the Financial District, Union Square, and Fisherman's Wharf are well-known around the world, San Francisco is also characterized by its numerous culturally rich streetscapes featuring mixed-use neighborhoods anchored around central commercial corridors to which residents and visitors alike can walk.
Beaches and Parks
Several of San Francisco's parks and nearly all of its beaches form part of the regional Golden Gate National Recreation Area, one of the most visited units of the National Park system in the United States with over 13 million visitors a year.
Top Attractions:
Alcatraz Island
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco Bay
AT&T Park
Golden Gate Park
Lands End
The Exploratorium
Palace of Fine Arts
Twin Peaks
Cable Cars
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Thanks for watching,
J
Maybe a day trip to Santa Cruz sometime?
Was 6:59 an edit?
Love this! Lived in SF 20 years, really miss it. Greatly appreciate how we can hear the nat sounds in this and in your other videos. Thank you for excluding narration and music.
My favorite San Francisco neighborhood.
Thanks for sharing it. I'll go there in January. I really love this city
Glad you enjoyed it and safe travels friend!
Early morning on a sunny day. Maybe a weekend morning. During a usual weekday (or weekend) afternoon it's packed with people and the cars go 0.5 mph.
if I lived in san Francisco I would never own a manual transmission...all those hill starts would kill me.
lol you get used to it
Automatic transmission here :)
Jim Black haha. I live in the u.k and I had a ford Capri 1.6 auto all those years ago after i passed my test. I think the majority of cars over there are autos. most cars over here are the good old fashioned stick shift which I prefer. tbh your probably better off in San Francisco driving a jalopy with automatic transmission as you'd probably get through a few clutches otherwise....
My mom visited San Francisco in her manual transmission mini cooper and it started smoking after a while.
You get used to it, but I definitely don't recommend it to people who are new to stick shift. A lot of newer cars now a days have hill assist, so it helps a bit, or you can do the traditional e-brake method. I've been driving stick for 2 years, and I never drive to SF if I had to lol. I'd much rather take Caltrain, BART, or any other transportation. Besides, driving in any city is such a headache, to me at least.
Muy bien. Realmente grandioso; muchas gracias.
Obrigado pelo feedback!
Idk why I watched this or why I’m even recommended these videos, I literally live 20 minutes away from San Francisco. Lol!
Let me tell you, as fun as it is to go window shopping around here, the walk is killer cuz of all these hills. Glad they have rental bikes, electric scooters, and ubers now.
The Asian-American population in the USA is still small compared to Hispanic-Americans, but I think many Americans forget that there have been Asians, particularly Chinese and Japanese and to a less extent Koreans, in America for a long time. There are multi-generational Chinese and Japanese communities all over the West Coast, which is something you don't see as much in the Southeast of USA...although there are a lot of Vietnamese in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida. I would love to take a tour of this Chinatown to learn the history if the original immigrants and the businesses and organizations they started.
Another good video!
I seriously have to know how you drive on those hills? Is it one foot on the gas, one on the brake? I'm very curious
Love your videos!
Thanks Corina - Appreciate your feedback! :D
One question please, are you a man or a woman? :)
Nice video!
I used to live in the Bay and I have to say, China town has some of the best views of the Bay Area. Good to see J Utah back as well. Think you will get any footage of Daly City or Colma? Thanks for sharing.
It's a great
It looks quite similar to the Chinatown in NYC!
I love these small cultures within these cities :)
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am i crazy or does a woman just appear out of nowhere at 6:59???
Madeline Arriola shapeshifter
YOOOOOO
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Random question but when you're in SF, how do you drive through the steep hills? Do you always do a hillstart whenever you stop at an intersection?
Well I guess you have to.
Haven't driven a manual transmission in SF. Just auto :)
I just check your channel and find lots of downtown in USA cities. And I hope can travel some cities in China.
Ardensphere Productions I’m sorry, u sound like a dumb kid who knows nothing about life but always talking shit, you dont want them ? But you take their money and stuff, you dont know how much money American government has owed from China ? And how much money Chinese-Americans have made for the US ? And half of the shit in your house were made by Chinese, go back to school to educate yourself kid, learn how to respect to someone trying to help your country rich
Hey buddy J Utah! please do all the amazing, clean and beautiful cities of Europe! Like in Germany, do Berlin, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Hanover, Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Nuremberg etc. In The Netherlands, do Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague etc. In France, do Paris, in Spain do Madrid, in Portugal do Lisbon, in the United Kingdom, do London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Edinburgh, Belfast, in Ireland, do Dublin, in Poland do Warsaw, in Russia do Moscow, Saint Petersburg, in Italy do Rome, in Hungary, do Budapest, in Greece do Athens, in Ukraine, do Kiev, also do Pripyat and Chernobyl where the 1986 Chernobyl disaster happened, in Denmark do Copenhagen, in Norway do Oslo, in Sweden do Stockholm, in Finland do Helsinski, in Iceland do Reykjavik etc. Please do the European cities next buddy! I love Europe, I love European culture, European history, I love European politics, I love good Liberal Socialistic Europe!
Good to hear from you again! Thats a great list to start with. May be doing some videos in Europe this year. More to come! :)
J Utah Thanks buddy!
Thank you, you have my deepest and most profound gratitude. I really appreciate all of the hard work you do, I know it's not easy, especially with all of that traveling you have to do and the Jet Lag that comes along with it etc. I always recommend my friends and family to subscribe to your channel when they would like to see tours of cities around the world. I'm a loyal subscriber to your great and magnificent channel and will be forever buddy!
Esses vídeos são muito bons! Quem não tem oportunidade de conhecer, conhece por aqui!
Obrigado por me avisar! :D
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De nada :D
What kind of camera and microphone (if any) did you use for this video? its great quality! Please and Thanks!
i went to San Francisco and got to Chinatown and i found a sign that says collectable instead of collectible. your so close, guys *slow claps*
I drive like you drive
Chinatown is everywhere in la.
This was San Francisco 😂
i want tour in the golden gate
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Man, please get a better camera with higher resolution. The picture sucks dude.
que vontade de morar nessa merda de cidade mds!!!
Sinto a mesma coisa
Can you do Chinatown in New York...
Just added it! Cant remember if you commented on the new one :) Cheers!
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So many cars parked with their wheels turned. Drivers without sense/awareness.
The wheels are turned so that the cars don't roll off the hill.
MrZZZZZ101 isn't that why the e brake is for?
In case the brakes fail the wheels are turned so the car doesn't roll into traffic
As the others have mentioned, it's because if the brakes fail the wheels will roll towards the sidewalk and stop there as opposed to rolling all the way down the hill.
Sounds like you've never driven a car, less, parked up or down hill of course it makes sense.