-baseball teams that usually make it to the play-offs San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics
-Barry Bonds
-gay dudes (as mentioned earlier)
-E-40
-Large population of Asians (Filipino, Viet, Chinese)
-UC Berkeley
-Hippies
-Stanford
-Black Panthers
-Silicon Valley
-High cost of living
-High Housing Prices
-4th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. after NY, LA, Chicago it's SF Bay Area, then Boston
-Crip/Blood activity is hella scarce unlike many other Cali Metro's
-Cold but not freezing cold, it aint no LA weather that's fo'sho
-Nor Cal clothing
-Bomb ass weed
-The complete indigenous culture that thrives here that doesn't derive many of it's components from LA or anywhere else in the U.S.
-Birthplace of the term EBONICS
-Earthquakes
-The ever so changing Bay Area slang (GAME!)