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"if you're going to san francisco"....caused me to end up studying, working and living in the sf bay area. it also brought a whole new generation of young americans from all over america from all walks of life to congregate in the beautiful city by the bay and stay for good. out of these migrants, we have hewlett and packard, noyce who became the father of the transitor and integrated chip, wozniak and jobs (he was born there, but his mom made the long journey to have her baby there), yang who studied at stanford and started yahoo, page and brin who studied at stanford and founded google, elon musk who came from south africa and started x.com which led to paypal and now a proud ceo of tesla motors which he co-founded, and numerous others including netscape founder, fairchild founders, schlumberger, seagate, intel, amd, tivo, cisco, brocade, juniper, arista, sun, oracle, peoplesoft, etc. it's endless. everything here gels, and the atmosphere is spectacular for inventions and discoveries. flanked by two premier schools, stanford and cal, there are also numerous state universities, uc santa cruz, colleges, u of santa clara, ucsf, uop, etc.