Oakland:
-A's repeatedly choking in the playoffs and trading all their best players away.
-Raiders being irrelevant for the past decade.
-Ugly coliseum with sewage problems.
-Dumbass mayors letting San Francisco steal the Warriors.
-Robberies.
-Shootings.
-Sideshows.
Arcata:
-Lack of big chain stores.
-Buses stop running at 7PM on weekends.
-No way to catch Greyhound to Redding, Portland, Seattle, Sacramento, etc. except by riding down to Oakland first and transferring (stupid, huh?)
-Humid weather.