I want to love San Francisco,

I want to love San Francisco, but honestly, I'm just kind of allergic to moving there and living there full time again. Don't get me wrong, it's a stunning city and it's beautiful, and there are definitely benefits to being there, especially if you're in the tech space but there are a couple of things that kinda drive me a little bit insane about being in a city. Number one is I think there is just like a crazy amount of AI psychosis going on over there. I was back in San Francisco like a month or so ago, and don't get me wrong, it was fun talking about AI, talking shop, it was just way too much. And you see some of the big personalities, the thought leaders on Twitter talking about AI and where it's going, and I just feel like it's so nauseating and maybe because I'm a little bit more of an AI bear rather than an AI bull right now, I don't think it's nearly gonna be as crazy transformational or world destroying as I thought it was gonna be. The next big thing that icks me about San Francisco is kinda just how seriously people take their work. And don't take this the wrong way, I think you should take your work relatively seriously to some degree, but I feel like every single person talks about mission. My company's mission is to cure loneliness. My company's mission is to democratize knowledge. When in reality, they're building just, like, a silly little B2B app or B2C app, and they're trying to make a quick buck, but they're trying to wrap it around some fake valor of some higher pursuing when really they're not pursuing when really they're not. The big trending meme about this in the tech zeitgeist right now is the founder of this one company called Corgi, which is an AI insurance company, and the CEO more or less kind of compared his really intense seven days a week work culture to have the intensity as the same people that went to go and build the Manhattan Project, AKA the nuclear bomb. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the idea and the heart of having that intensity about the work that you do to be successful, but bro, like, we are literally just coding monkeys clicking some buttons on a keyboard. Our job is fake. 99.999% of people that are building apps right now, they're not building truly world-changing things that's gonna benefit humanity. There is a select few that are, but the vast majority is not. It just feels like people are LARPing a higher mission for a more impactful job than they're really doing and people that are performing actual real jobs like teachers and healthcare workers don't get that same type of recognition in the Bay Area. Conversely, I feel like a lot of the founders that are migrating over to New York, yes, they're intense. Yes, they still work really hard. Yes, they still have those big aspirations, but they also know that what they're doing is not under some crazy higher goal, higher mission that they're trying to pursue to change the world. Like, they call a spade a spade and just say like, "Yeah, we're just building something cool that makes money, and it's useful for other people." I feel like you can still be a very intense and active founder, but living in a place like New York or maybe even LA to just surround yourself with more normal people and live a more normal life