Read Guns, Germs, and Steel It was one the last major settled/invaded geographically ideal area at the end of the expanding Western frontier that filtered pion

Read Guns, Germs, and Steel It was one the last major settled/invaded geographically ideal area at the end of the expanding Western frontier that filtered pioneers more than anywhere else from all over the rest of the world (pre-airplane). Now, it's a super-organism with extreme concentrations of wealth, talent, academia, and industry where each legs supports the other with people vying to stay part of it without being pushed out by big money from around the world. Maybe I'll be able to afford a house where my grandparents or parents lived but they're in the $2-4M USD range now. Most people who move to SF tend to be their own special form of crazy who cannot afford to live there but insist on an irrational, unsustainable lifestyle anyhow.