Interestingly 42% of folks in EU that have signed up for the site actually don't want Large Language Models to answer any questions about them. So you're not alone in thinking maybe it's not good to be encoded. :)
Doing some goal factoring and trying to really understand what reasons would keep you in Bay Area is a good excercise. I'm guilty of noticing being stuck in this artificial prison quite late myself. :)
https://medium.com/teleport-stories/another-kind-of-silicon-...