[Huck]

It's definitely in the eye of the beholder. I like the line from the song:

I can tell you fancy,
I can tell you plain,
You give something up,
For everything you gain,
Since every pleasure,
has an edge of pain,
Pay for your ticket,
And don't complain.

There's always tradeoffs. I know the SF area is mucho expensive, and then there's that San Andreas thingy.

[scott says]

Silvio...Bob Dylan/Robert Hunter...

[Binghamton_native]

I know what you mean about the San Andreas thing. Spooky, although I was on a business trip in Ohio for the '89 Bay Area quake. I think almost every area of the country has some possible natural disaster problem. Hurricane Hazel went through upstate NY when I was living there in 1954. But there is something unnerving about an earthquake. I think they are unique in that there is no warning.