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I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

— Huey Lewis

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.

— Joan Didion

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

— Tracy K. Smith

I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.

— Banks

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

— Freddy Fender

I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.

— Don Winslow

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.

— John Malkovich

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

— Aisha Tyler

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.

— Jason Dolley

I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.

— Alia Shawkat

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

— Cheech Marin