Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author left San Francisco over a decade ago.Courtesy of the author I crave going home to the Bay Area, but long visits remind ...

I've lived in Spain for over a decade. I'm always excited to go "home" to visit family and friends in the San Francisco Bay Area, and spend time in a place that is so familiar. I usually visit once a ...

I crave going home to the Bay Area, but long visits remind me why Spain feels right. The Bay Area feels car-bound, expensive, rushed, and harder to adjust to. Each visit brings reverse culture shock — ...