Originally Posted by
greatbasin
Isn't what made Marin county attractive and valuable not the cultural manure of Bohemian culture, but the way they managed to get the federal government to lock up most of the land in national and state parks, preserves, and reservations, blocking any kind of development so that the value of the limited supply of developable land skyrocketed resulting in gentrification and the almost total exclusion of anything resembling poor people?
...Marin's original appeal was open space just across the Bay Bridge, and a significant land mass that was far enough back from the coastal fog that constantly socks in San Francisco. It's a nice place to live on a hillside, and watch the fog roll in and out over the bay, enjoying the moderating effect on temperatures of the nearby Pacific ocean, but still see the sun most days. I don't know who lives there now, but you didn't used to need to be rich to do it. Now, you probably do.
It's regrettable on a forum devoted to bicycles that more people don't remember Marin's significant role in the evolution of mountain bikes.