We asked readers where they’d live in S.F. The top neighborhood was a foggy surprise

Breaking San Francisco news: Basking in the sun drinking Cutty Bangs at Dolores Park is out. Eating dim sum under overcast skies is in.

When we asked Chronicle readers where in San Francisco they’d most like to live, in a poll embedded in my recent love letter to Mission Bay, we were expecting sunnier neighborhoods to dominate. Places like Noe Valley, Mission District and Potrero Hill, where you might need to carry just one extra layer on an August afternoon.

But the biggest winner by far was the Richmond District, one of the foggiest corners in the city, which its advocates laud for its movie theaters, great parks in every direction, affordable homes (graded on the brutal S.F. curve) and every variety of food one can imagine…

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