Congrats, Rich! Glad to hear everything's going well.
I rent down in San Jose, but have no desire to stay here long term. It's just a place to hang my hat while I work in Silicon Valley.
If this company I'm at "makes it" in a couple years, I thought I might head to San Francisco, or maybe east bay like Orinda, Lafayette, or Moraga. I'm far more partial to SFH than shared walls of any kind, so east bay is probably better suited for me.
However, it looks like with the crazy real estate market now in the Bay Area, I will be priced out of anything I'd want a couple years from now. What might cost $800k - $1m today will probably cost half again as much two years from now, and I couldn't afford it (nor would I pay that kind of premium anyway).
Not sure what I'll do in that case. I thought about going back to Colorado just for a year or two, but not permanently. That might change if prices go nuts here and price me out of the market. I refuse to have to hold down another rat-race 9-to-5 cube job doing IT work just to make enough money to afford an (overpriced, to me) home. I'd rather take my little bag of money and go back someplace I can get something decent and still do my own thing.
Time will tell, I suppose. It always does.