A thing which still gets me about the Bay Area;
As soon as you get west of 280, from Pacifica to Santa Cruz is rural nowhere. Being only 60-120 minutes from this is definitely part of why I don't completely despise the Bay Area, but it surprises me that the whole thing hasn't been built up into generic poor or upper middle class nowhere.
Anyway I was thinking about this because as is my pattern insomnia has turned into wanting to stay up/skip work/drive out through open country to the coast.