Until you factor in education level of the populace, better-maintained roads, better electrical grid, better communications grid, and the population density (which makes deliveries cheaper by reducing fuel costs and delivery times).
Also...Chief Executive magazine believed that Carly Fiona was a good executive. It supported the guys at Enron. It lauded the bank executives that played a large role in causing the current global mess. Take anything that mag says with a large ton of salt.
Ok, I love the Bay Area, but better electrical grid? Seriously?
I hope you have it better on the peninsula than we do in Santa Cruz, because here it's roughly equivalent to a 3rd world developing country. In Sweden, I ran my computer for years and never lost anything to a power glitch. Here, I won't even plug in a computer without a ups because MTBF due to power issues is about a week.
Yep. Texas actually has a better grid within the state, but it has a very "it's all mine and I am not going to share" attitude when it comes to commecting to the regional/national grids; it does the bare minimum it can get away with according to federal statute and is effectively it's own little island for the purposes of power. This worked just great for them when a certain groups of assholes in Houston were raping California by rigging the power markets and for as long as their generation capacity exceeded demand, but now that the intra-state supply is falling short of demand this is not looking as good as it once appeared...
