Such excellent points!! I have always applauded entrepreneurs but the money goes to their head and they really ruin civilizations. Mill Valley is in their own little world and almost have no idea what else goes on in the world except for watching CNN. Unless you have been there for 30 years or are filthy rich you are in a nasty zone of just trying to live a normal life. It has such remarkable beauty yet is so filthy.
Port Costa used to be one of the busiest wheat ports on the West Coast of the US. They dredged the delta which sort of put an end to that.
Now it is a quiet little enclave with two very good restaurants and outstanding bars, and a little hotel with tons of character.
It’s a place where mostly gay people go to live and hide from the world, and you can’t assume anything by the fact they are gay. Ideologically, they mostly don’t have an ideology, except to say they want to be left alone.
I have a lot of respect for that. You have to buy and bring all your food in - they don’t even have a market.
It’s an end-of-the-world spot. A drink at the Warehouse while the world blows itself up.
The Mossy Toad at the golf course at Newcastle east of Seattle is another such place. In both places, you can have a cigar while you watch the world burn.