I tried hard to convince a couple of friends to come.

This is Stockholm Syndrome

  You’ll earn more here than you would anywhere else.

Because the rent is proportionally expensive. If money is your focus work remote in Indonesia for a bay area

  If you decide to move here, it means you probably have more ambition than average. Consider that everybody else you’ll meet in the Bay Area will share that with you.

I would say there is a greater chance that people share the same ambition when it comes to tech, but you can't say Silicon Valley has more ambitions people on average if most of them are slaving away at FAANG companies.

  California is stunning. It’s sunny year long

Not San Francisco