These are the reasons I chose to leave the East Bay. It's a dump (almost literally). Californian exceptionalism is rampant too, like many people have never visi

These are the reasons I chose to leave the East Bay. It's a dump (almost literally). Californian exceptionalism is rampant too, like many people have never visited a place where you aren't afraid to park your car on the street or don't step over human feces. For the low low price of $2,500/month (and that's not particularly expensive). What bothers me most is that when I talk about this with people there the reaction is somewhere between "good riddance" or reducing my complaints down to cost of living. But I distinctly remember talking to a mayoral candidate in Berkeley canvassing for the election last year and discussing things like solar mandates. He seemed baffled that I asked why the city couldn't keep my street clean or do something about the number of brush fires and assaults at the nearby homeless encampment. The Easy Bay could be great, but they're lacking basic municipal function and acting like the weather, mountains, and liberalism make up for it.