A Judgmental 'Urban Dictionary' Map of San Francisco

San Rafael boasts “more hybrid cars than black people,” half the residents of Palo Alto “have their name registered as a domain,” and San Francisco’s Tenderloin district is, ahem, the “ass smellin’ area”—these are some of the revelations in this profane Bay Area map based on Urban Dictionary judgment calls.

Sasha Trubetskoy, a 19-year-old student at the University of Chicago, made the map by overlaying U.D. statements on the cities and towns they reference. The process took careful curation. For Milpitas in the South Bay, for example, he could have gone with “a small town that serves as a speed bump between Fremont and San Jose,” or “gangs usually start in Milpitas and move on to San Jose where they can actually get into trouble,” but settled with “perpetual smell of rotting trash.” (There’s a dump nearby.)