[AnotherUnixGeek]

I have been to the Bay Area, stayed weeks at a time in the Bay Area, multiple times over the past 25+ years, married to someone who grew up in the Bay Area and still has friends and family there.

Whatever you say. But why do you need folks from the Bay Area telling you about it if you're a semi-regular here?

I get that you think it is heaven on earth and we should all be so lucky.

Nope, that's as off base as the other things you've been saying - it's overpriced, overtaxed and over-regulated. But it's not cold or dinky or dirty, or any of the other stuff you mentioned.

[yldstrk]

well Mark Twain thought it was cold and so do I.

I think when a cottage sells for 500,000 it’s dinky. And the standards of maintenance are very casual.

But I am glad you like it. Since you are stuck there.