Bay Area

That buys into the idea that humans can just live anywhere they like, without tradeoffs and costs.

A vital resource like drinking water is not available everywhere, and if you want to live in a place where there isn't any, there are costs of water treatment and reliability.

There were a bunch of articles in the last 2 years about Sonoma County's diminshing water resources.

Some towns having to truck in water from elsewhere, although search is failing to dig up the particular example I was thinking of.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/07/17/drying-up-sonoma-countys-quiet-disaster-you-need-to-know-about/