Slightly different point, but I took the less beaten road of moving to the Valley instead of SF, and made a lot of friends here compared to everywhere else I've

Slightly different point, but I took the less beaten road of moving to the Valley instead of SF, and made a lot of friends here compared to everywhere else I've been (grew up just north of NYC, have lived in Illinois and the DMV). There are a lot of good hard-working people here in the Bay Area who aren't necessarily obsessed with tech on their off-hours, or even working in tech (two good friends are a teacher and a Stanford post-doc for example).