Shortly after receiving her doctorate my mother moved to San Francisco for her first job. She took along with her my brother Kenneth, barely two at the time, and my father followed suit a few months later after receiving his first job in Burlinggame.
The both of them switched jobs the few years following in the recession of the early 2000s. My parents bought their first house in Alameda shortly before my birth, living in Alameda for seven years before moving to Piedmont in desire