What do you want to do?<p>If you have some lazy habits, generally just want a nice place to work, and to afford rent, a car, good food, and to play xbox, I might choose elsewhere. Or maybe not.<p>If you have an idea and some drive, it's an utterly fantastic place to live. Sure, in some places the rent is a little high and the burn rate in general can be large, if you're able to network and work your ass off, it can be perfectly doable.<p>I like SF quite a bit. I'm not sure I could live here for 10 years (I'm grew up in northeastern Ohio), but for the time being it's definitely where I want to be and I've been pretty satisfied so far. Good people, good nightlife (in most places, NOT the valley), and good work environments.<p>Oh, and good coffee. That counts too.