Yeah, I’ve been hearing about this for a while now.

I grew up in the Bay Area. I honestly have no interest in going back there permanently, and I don’t see myself changing my mind:

• transit is awful
• traffic is awful
• cost of living is awful
• real estate prices are awful
• modern tech culture in Silicon Valley is, imo, absolutely cancerous these days. SO MUCH KOOL AID DRINKING.
• annual fires because PG&E is categorically fucking useless and doesn’t maintain anything
• not enough seasons (I like actually having 4 seasons of weather)

Boston is where it’s at, imo.

Edit: forgot a big one - the government, while very reliably Democratic, is beset by the fact that a shitload of the state politicians are MASSIVE corporatists. The tropes about CA being a “liberal bastion” (in American parlance - as opposed to conservative) are hugely overstated these days.