While we always suspected it, we now have verifiable proof that San Franciscans are the best brunchers in the world! At least, according to the Time Out City Life Index, which revealed that 36% of us eat brunch on the regular, making us the city with the most brunchers. And while some of the other results won't surprise you (San Franciscans are willing to wait 1.5 hours for a restaurant table), some of them are a little more scandalous (14% of San Franciscans think it's ok to send nudes to someone they've never met).
The Time Out City Life Index charts the most exciting cities in the world right now. We ranked 32 cities on criteria including food, drink and culture, local neighborhoods, friendliness, affordability, happiness, and whether people were proud to live in their city.
SF scored well for its buzzy restaurant scene and for people feeling free to be themselves, but fared worse when it came to safety and affordability, leading to an overall ranking of 17.
Here are some other cool things we found out about San Franciscans:
We're hella cultured. In fact, we take in the most culture—bars, galleries, movies, live music—in the U.S. We do at least one of those activities, on average, a week.
And sure, we might whine about the (lack of) dating scene in the Bay Area, but it turns out we're not doing too bad when it comes to sex. According to the City Life Index, 28% of San Franciscans have partaken in a threesome—making us the most-sexually free city in the country. On top of that, 1-in-3 Bay Area residents have ghosted someone, and 65% of us, the highest in the country, have had a one-night stand. And exactly one half of San Franciscans have dated more than one person at a time.
We also work hard; 53% of us said they couldn’t get through the day without checking e-mails. 58% said the same thing about drinking coffee.
Best of all, 88% of us feel free to be ourselves in this city of ours. And that’s pretty damn awesome.
Here's how other cities around the world fared (at least we beat L.A.):
1 Chicago
2 Porto
3 New York
4 Melbourne
5 London
6 Madrid
7 Manchester
8 Lisbon
9 Philadelphia
10 Barcelona
11 Edinburgh
12 Tel Aviv
13 Austin
14 Paris
15 Ciudad de México
16 Shanghai
17 San Francisco
18 Berlin
19 Tokyo
20 Los Angeles
21 Zürich
22 Beijing
23 Washington, D.C.
24 Bangkok
25 Moscow
26 Hong Kong
27 Miami
28 Sydney
29 Geneva
30 Boston
31 Singapore
32 Istanbul
For more interesting stats about your peers and other party cities click here: timeout.com/citylifeindex