I'm more than happy to tell you why where you live is SO much better than in NoCa. Did you notice the road you had to take to get to Half Moon Bay from 280? Imagine that road in pouring rain with tons of traffic going over the hill. Impossible. HMB is NoCal's Newburyport with better surf. And much more expensive stores. And housing that is so outrageously priced it's ridiculous. Makes our fair city look cheap.

The schools in most of NoCal suck lemons. Notall, but most. They don't have a decent bagel in the entire northern part of the state. Most of the non-asian restaurants stink. All pizza sucks. There is no greek food. Donuts...BLECH.

People are beyond shallow. And they ain't that bright. There isn't much of a middle class, only the SV millionaires and the rest of the drones. People are HORRIBLY unfriendly. You can live next door to people for years and not even know their names. They always scream about diversity, but it's one of the least diverse places I've lived. There's asians, plenty of asians, and a few black folks in Oakland, and that's pretty much it. No Italians, No Greeks, No Jews, No Irish. Pretty much nobody. But they think they're diverse.

They're unbelievably anti-religion and very bigotes against anyone who has any religion in their lives.

As a native californian who is thrilled to be long gone, really, where you live is SO much better. The weather sucks, but 80 and sunny gets really old after a while.
