&gt; Learn to accept living with roommates even though you make 6-figures and your friends back home are buying huge houses on far less.<p>I&#x27;m glad you like the Bay Area and this is a great post.  If this is what it takes to love the Bay Area it&#x27;s no wonder people would want to leave.  But you are right.  The extraordinary expense of living there will chase a lot of privileged people away because they don&#x27;t want to pay the price.  (Unfortunately some of the less privileged cannot be so flexible.)