Apparently, you aren't aware of what San Francisco is like. It's so very, very expensive to live in...well, the ENTIRE Bay Area, that slobs like those who live in Portland simply CANNOT afford to live anywhere NEAR The City or the Bay Area.
The once-cheap-hippie Haight Ashbury hasn't seen a "hippie" in 50 years as the prices of those places is out of reach for anyone with a normal pay check.
Google the real estate prices. Check out what YOUR house would cost ANYWHERE in the Bay Area. Oakland Hills is a super posh part of Oakland, even.
Also, San Francisco is far more conservative, with a conservative Chinese mayor Ed Lee. The Chinese are both fiscally and financially very conservative. The San Francisco voters ELECTED him.
However, if you happen to loathe San Francisco, nothing I write will alter your opinion.
Freegards.
This is good to hear - my SIL is retiring from the USMC in May. He has a job lined up in SF. They’re looking at Dublin or Walnut Creek.
San Francisco is conservative. Right.
56% of voters are registered as democrats. 9% republican.
The last time SF voted for the GOP presidential candidate was before I was born - 1956. And apart from Dwight Eisenhower, it hasn’t voted for the GOP candidate since 1924.
Since 2004, it has voted 85% for the democrat running for president.
Yeah, its expensive. Filled with rich liberals. Wouldn’t miss it if a tidal wave washed it clean.
BTW - my 2700 sq ft house on 2 acres would probably cost a lot in San Francisco...glad I don’t live there!