https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/11/two-bay-area-cities-have-the-happiest-renters-in-the-u-s/

When you think about renting in the Bay Area you might think of challenges like steep prices, low vacancies and endless apartment hunts. But a new report suggests you might be wrong.

A study from Zumper, an apartment search platform, suggests that the Bay Area has some of the happiest renters in the country. For the  2019 State of the American Renter report, researchers crunched the numbers on key metrics such as percentage of respondents who thought they were getting a good deal, percentage satisfied with their current living situation and percentage who have lived in their apartment for more than five years. Hometown pride also counted for a lot in this measurement of happiness.