well San Francisco is only a small part of SV.

if you want to work in SF you have to live in SF, be a liberal and walk to your job.

but most jobs in SV are outside of SF and you could live within a few minute drive of those. i lived within a few minutes of Google and it was quite affordable ( except i had non-whites on both sides - Mexican who drove an ex-police car on one side and Nigger family with a pit bull on the other ). the pit bull would swim in my pool and occasionally the entire street would fill up with cop cars visiting my Nigger neighbors.

but it can be done. you can absolutely live in SV and not spend 2 hours commuting. of course if you were to live in San Jose and commute to SF then yes you would spend 2 hours commuting but why would you do that when you can work in San Jose or live in SF ( in a closet ).

SV stretches from SF to San Jose and everything in between. both Google and Apple are in between. Intel and Supermicro are in San Jose. Twitter is in SF. i doubt many people commute from one end of the valley to the other - that would be pretty dumb. just live next to where you work. you would have to of course adjust your expectations for things like square footage and parking if you live / work in SF itself.

if you are choosing a spot purely based on employment opportunities i would probably go with either Austin, DFW, Washington DC ( Data Center Capital of the World ), NYC ( Google has offices in NYC too ), Boston or Seattle

Orlando is more about nice weather and girls showing skin year round. Not even the beach ( there is no beach, but there are pools ). For the beach you need Miami area or St John's county. I would probably skip Tampa area for beaches because gulf isn't the ocean and they get algae blooms there and it just doesn't seem to have that ocean feeling that beaches in St. John's county do where you just get hit in the face with the ions and you're like yeah this is the ocean.