I lived in San Francisco for two years, and moved away to a much smaller place when my (temporary) job ran out. SF isn't for everyone, but I absolutely loved i

I lived in San Francisco for two years, and moved away to a much smaller place when my (temporary) job ran out. SF isn't for everyone, but I absolutely loved it. I went to weekly swing dances attended by 200+ people, joined meditation circles, took yoga classes from the best instructors in the world, took comedy lessons from the studio that pioneered long-form improv, ... the list goes on and on. SF has a huge concentration of high-energy, motivated, ambitious, creative people, and if I had the option I would move back there in a heartbeat, high real estate prices and all. Everyone's tastes are different, I don't mean to criticize you one bit, but there are a lot of things to seriously love about San Francisco, and people who love these things push the rents up.