You did. For now, and the foreseeable future. It&#x27;s still an awesome city on a bunch of levels... but in my twenties I&#x27;d go up there to play in bands and see friends and I remember really tripping out on the diversity of social groups. There was clearly massive socio-economic variance in small area but a general consciousness that those weren&#x27;t the lines at which to draw social boundaries along. Lots of gaggles of friends at bars or coffee-shops with wildly different backgrounds, jobs, and outlooks.<p>Now it&#x27;s a sea of fucking bearded hipster macbook pro startup dev nerds. To be clear: I&#x27;m a bearded hipster macbook pro startup dev nerd. I don&#x27;t get credit for not being that. I DO get credit for not piling on by joining the cultural dog pile.<p>Personally I consider it close to a cultural and professional imperative to avoid living in the bay as a developer, for a whole host of reasons.