I just moved here and it seems like it lacks a tenth of the soul Los Angeles has, which would make sense if we priced out everyone that brought soul to the city. The food isn't nearly as good. The music scene isn't half as good. Traffic is nearly as shitty as LA. The LGBTQ community seems to have largely been priced out. You can't find affordable housing near where all the action is happening whereas studio apartments in Hollywood can easily be found for ~$1k. A significant number of people are pretending to be other people without a very good understanding of the people they are pretending to be (it's as if aliens came to the Bay and tried to impersonate the one dimensional people they see on TV) (at least in LA when people are fake, their archetype is someone they've met and their impersonation is a lot closer to the reference material).

The only thing that might be better is: you're a hell of a lot closer to nature and it's a lot safer (I wouldn't be comfortable walking around LA past 1AM).

Ive lived in Tijuana (Mexico), near Juarez (Mexico), near Bern (Switzerland), 29 Palms (California), and Los Angeles and traveled all over western Europe and I have yet to find a place as homogenously boring and fake as the Bay Area. With the exception of Juarez I'd choose any of those places over the Bay.

I don't mean to be insulting (I'm really just upset at myself for moving to such an over priced boring place) but saying you're the only one in tech that likes living in San Francisco is like complaining that you are the only one who enjoys Mcdonalds; it's for good reason.