South Bay, Silicon Valley in the old historical sense, is still a boring suburban sprawl with above average restaurants and high rents/house prices. Certain am

South Bay, Silicon Valley in the old historical sense, is still a boring suburban sprawl with above average restaurants and high rents/house prices. Certain amount of extra package thieving but it hasn't changed much in the last 25 years as a place to live. The economics of area is harder to be sure about. San Francisco had reached a point of absurdity, and is poorly run for a city as well off as it is. 4,000 subsidized studio apartments would largely solve the homeless problem, for example.