I wonder if DHH means SF proper, or if he's actually talking about the entire Bay Area. The Peninsula (Palo Alto, San Mateo) and the South Bay (Mountain View,

I wonder if DHH means SF proper, or if he's actually talking about the entire Bay Area. The Peninsula (Palo Alto, San Mateo) and the South Bay (Mountain View, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale) are home to the popular web sites used around the world. The issues you would deal with living in SF differ pretty dramatically from the ones you'd deal with living anywhere else in the Bay Area. (Except the expense, which is bad everywhere.)