It's funny, because people are willing to pay unfathomable amounts of money to live in San Fran. The people out there think everyone in rural America is living in rustic squalor, and rural Americans think all urbanites are living in dystopian squalor.
The disconnect between the two is huge, and completely absurd. San Francisco is quite nice, although not without problems. Polk County, TN is also quite nice, although not without problems.
Unfortunately, we are losing the ability to accept that different people like different things and different ways of living. We're all becoming obsessed with making our chosen lifestyle and preferences "win," rather than focusing on how everyone's preferences can be accommodated peacefully.