If you believe San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie, there’s no place better to live in the world than The City by the Bay. At WIRED’s Big Interview event on Thursday—not so coincidentally held in San Francisco—the mayor told global editorial director Katie Drummond that he’s absolutely convinced that anyone looking to rag on the city doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Photograph: Annie Noelker
Of course, Lurie said, things could always be better. While he hailed positive changes that San…


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