Seven year SF/Bay Area resident here. This rings true for me in a number of ways. Two anecdotes: 1. SF is small. Several years ago I was reading Dreaming in Co

Seven year SF/Bay Area resident here. This rings true for me in a number of ways. Two anecdotes: 1. SF is small. Several years ago I was reading Dreaming in Code. Turned out a guy that I had been working with for a year or so had come from OSF, and sat in the desk the author vacated at the OSF office. 2. Right after I moved to the Bay Area I was chatting with someone at a tech writing meetup. She mentioned that she knew someone who worked at a company that could maybe throw me a contract, and they did. Things didn't go that great but it got my career going.