Laughing. My. Fucking. Ass. Off.

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.

They really need to stop voting for the people fucking them over.

South Park portrayed San Frannies the most accurately to date.

Boston is where it’s at, imo.

Not really. You people need to learn to get away from major cities, especially when you'll never own property in them.