San Francisco An insider’s guide to
By Teresa Fitzherbert (2005)
When my husband first told me that he’d been offered a role at his company’s headquarters in San Francisco, I cried. It was October 2018, I was nine months pregnant and baking a carrot cake to pass the time. I think the technical term is ‘nesting’. The news wasn’t completely out of the blue – he’d been working in tech for a few years and we had talked excitingly about moving to Silicon Valley. What an adventure! I could go freelance, we could drink deactivated charcoal smoothies every day and do couples yoga. Yet I couldn’t help but weep into my cake’s cream cheese icing. Was my baby really going to have an American accent? I also had no idea what the West Coast was really like. I had an image of San Francisco as the technology
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