The reason why I still live in earthquake country, otherwise known as California, lol, is because of family, jobs, and the people here. Specifically, I like living in the Silicon Valley. Yes, I realize we have issues with our political system – believe me, I know that first hand, especially when it comes to medical-freedom rights, which is the reason why I almost wanted to move out of California. Yes, taxes are way too high. Yes, we are due for the “big one”. Yes, I have to wake up at 4:30 am in the morning to trade the markets on N.Y. time. But, there is no where else where I feel most comfortable.

There are a lot of interesting people here. I have a friend who started up a new company that has one of the most non-invasive cancer detection technologies in the world – Accuragen: http://www.accuragen.com. My son used to have playdates with one of the kids of a founders of Instacart: https://www.instacart.com, who lives just blocks from us. I have another friend who just organized one of the first ever China-U.S. biotech investment events in the S.F. area with people flying in from all over the country: http://cticcapital.com. There are so many innovative people who live in the area.

We also have electric-car-charging stations even at our local library so when people go to check out a book they can charge their all-electric cars. When I drive around the neighborhood I get to see the cute Google self-driving-test cars. Life is interesting here. I get to see a lot of innovation first hand. Or perhaps it is just inertia.

This is an electric-car-charging station at our local library.

Here is a picture of Google’s self-driving-test car that I took Tuesday afternoon while driving my daughter to her dance class.