Popcorn Budget

Read an entertaining essay in the San Francisco Chronicle about one reporter's attempts to scratch a living for him and his family in the San Francisco Bay Area (link here). He raises the question that I and many of my peers living in the area have had to confront head on at some point, especially amongst the majority of us who grew up elsewhere and know exactly what we are foregoing by calling San Francisco home: Are the intangible benefits of living in the Bay Area worth all of the material sacrifices that one must make given the extremely high cost of living here? Guess that will always be a tough call.