My brother and my best friend lived in Bay Area suburbs as opposite ends. They are both out clean now. SF itself sucks. It is smash and grab central the minute you park your car. The laws, crime, filth and traffic suck beyond belief. The whole area is so full of left wing insanity it feels like you are visiting the Middle East. After you send 1.5 to 3.0 for a nice place the taxes and utilities will kill you and that is in the burbs. In SF I have no idea how you could even have a nice place.
Middle east? .... Left wing insanity ... doesn’t make sense. The only place left wing anything happens in the Middle East is in Tel Aviv.