Indeed. I moved away from Silly Valley about ten years ago, and I'm never going back (to live there). - The public schools are mostly terrible (we'd have to pu

Indeed. I moved away from Silly Valley about ten years ago, and I'm never going back (to live there). - The public schools are mostly terrible (we'd have to put our kid in private school unless we got into one of the really good school districts). - House prices are crazy. - The environment is just . . . bad. I didn't know how much I missed actual weather until moving away (to Seattle, if you must know -- I don't mind the rain much at all). About the only things I miss from the Bay Area are my friends, the year-round motorcycling, and the hard-core high tech culture (though there is a lot of that here in the Seattle area).