Each of these has pluses and minuses – very smart people work fast, have great ideas, and are fun to be around, but they often build products that appeal only to themselves and not to “normal” people. People here feel they are entitled to and destined for success – and this drives them to constantly strive to achieve success, putting in long hours and much personal energy into their enterprises – and setting unreasonably high expectations for their children, their schools, and other people. Even the fantastic weather has downsides – there’s a certain toughness that we lose when we live here, much like astronauts lose muscle mass and tone when floating in zero gravity.

On the whole, for me, I wouldn’t live anywhere else – unless it was another unrealistic, striving, entitled environment like Manhattan or London. Unless I was retired, in which case Rome or Venice would be appealing – wouldn’t want to work there, though!