Great climate and gorgeous scenery but it is a city that lost a ground war with an army of homeless drug addicts.
Human feces on all of the streets, regular property crime, stores closing up and moving away, intense regulatory oversight for small businesses along with high costs.
No one I know who is starting something novel is doing it in California.
I guess it depends on what you mean by novel but the startup scene is very strong in the bay currently. I moved out to Utah last year for a cheaper place to live and obviously that’s nice, but the amount of casual racism and lack of diversity is shocking. I took things like tolerance and even basic regards for the planet for granted while I lived in the bay, and I’m dismayed at how rare that is across the rest of the US.
