sometimes, I really just want to move back to Oakland. and live the adult life in Oakland I always dreamt of. Don't get me wrong, LA is sick. But it just ain't the bay.

At the end of the day, this is how I see it for me personally:
Los Angeles is good for work and little social life, and right now I need to work to get myself to where I want to be, and that will only happen in LA or traveling abroad working [eventually].
The Bay is good for kinda working and having an amazing social life. Right now, Oakland isn't what will work for me in the end so that's why I don't live there (well...a fraction of the reason).