life etc.

[kest]

So the room I had hoped I had lined up in Oakland fell through, for reasons that can't be helped or held against anyone. Also, the wheels got stolen off my car. Am thinking maybe the universe is trying to tell me something. So I am running through again why I decided to come back here. In a lot of ways it's just the path of least resistance, but I feel like I should break it down a little more. Here are the pros and cons of living in the Bay Area:

Pros:

• All my stuff is here.
• Have a lot of friends here.
• Like the culture - geeks, openness, hippie values.
• I was still referring to it as home while I was away (although perhaps due to lack of anywhere else to refer to)
• I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be (although some I like equally well)
• The weather is nice.
• SF is a great city to visit (meaning more people are likely to come visit me here - and right now I owe a lot of couch karma.)

Cons:

• It's really expensive.
• Parts of it (especially the slightly less expensive parts) are really unsafe.

The pros certainly seem at first glance to outweigh the cons, but the cons are rather a doozy. I know lots of places that are cheap and safe but, say, have shit weather or no culture or a lack of awesome people.  I've been looking around rather extensively, you know, and waiting for my gut to kick in, but maybe I should do a spreadsheet thing where I give different things like the weather and the cost of rent points and then rate cities against each other.