I’m a writer who left Los Angeles to work at an AI startup in San Francisco. It was like entering a completely new world.0

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• July 12, 2026

I moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco because of a cold DM on X. I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles and, after attending college there, built my career in journalism across the country, first covering local news and then crypto. I liked my comfortable life with friends and family. Then in