[ocb]

Portland, LA, and Boulder all have the problems you listed...

Also the idea that Boulder has some kind of culture that the Bay Area doesn't is laughable. Disregarding that only 100,000 people live there, I've never seen a place more homogenously populated by "rich boring white people" in my entire life. It's like an entire city of the stuff that pops up when neighborhoods gentrify.

[Danihan]

Did it ever occur to you that a nice, "boring," safe culture is what many people want?

[ocb]

Yes, it did? Boulder seems like a nice enough place to live. I was pointing out how preposterous it is to claim that the Bay Area is a "cultureless void" because of tech bros and left-wing politics and then claim that somewhere that's the absolute epitome of those things is better.

[nailer]

Portland and LA are way cleaner, even at their dirtiest.