Lived in Newhaven from 1999-2006. Biggest problem IMO is still traffic, but if you're on the train/bus to work you won't have problems.
I lived off Valley Drive for a while (convenient, clean, cheap, mostly huge houses on odd/tiny plots) and bought a new place up by Tideway in 2002. Easily the...
They're my "local" team. They sell-out virtually every home game, do all sorts of stuff in the community (as evidenced by that story!), and moved into a new stadium a couple of years ago after playing on-and-off all over town. Unfortunately, their new stadium is a converted baseball field, so...
Ten miles really isn't long enough to warm it up properly. Take it for a longer run (>25 miles and/or >an hour) once in a while; it won't do it anymore. :)
Live.. Stewart Lee, Jim Jefferies, Reginald D Hunter, Jimeoin
Got to give Al Murray (ten years ago) some credit, as well as Hugh Dennis.. even though NO ONE agrees with the latter. :)
Specifically in SF.. Foley's have the usual suspects on tap, there's a deli up on Nob Hill (fnarr) that has a good British can/bottle selection.. and there's a shop run by a nutter from Yorkshire near Van Ness that keeps proper Mars bars, Crunchies, Irn Bru, etc.
That said.. the local stuff is...
Generally.. it kinda depends which hosting service you're on. The cheapest high-capacity services rely on spreading things around in a giant cluster that's managed by the provider - so they control what updates get installed and when. Any software installed on top of that is the customer's...