Petaluma is an awesome place and it has a fair share of tech culture. Bias, TwitVid and a number of agencies are all westside downtown locals. Housing on the we

Petaluma is an awesome place and it has a fair share of tech culture. Bias, TwitVid and a number of agencies are all westside downtown locals. Housing on the westside is getting more competitive though. Nothing like SF I'm sure but difficult to get into unless you make 150k+. Petaluma has that nice old-world vibe because it sits on a slab of granite. During the big earthquakes of the past century the neighboring cities' buildings collapsed but that slab of granite provided a buffer for Petaluma, keeping its turn of the century downtown. It also ended up being the default relief center during those disasters :) Way to go, slab.