Of the six million people who make their home in the vicinity of San Francisco, only a lucky one in eight lives in the city itself. Everyone else is spread around the
Bay Area
, a hodgepodge of either very rich or very poor towns located down the peninsula or across one of the two impressive bridges that span the chilly waters of the exquisite natural harbor. In the
East Bay
are industrial Oakland and intellectual Berkeley. To the south lies the gloating new wealth of the
Peninsula
, known as "Silicon Valley" because of its multibillion-dollar computer industry. Across the Golden Gate Bridge to the north is the woody, leafy landscape and rugged coastline of
Marin County
, America's richest suburb.
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