I agree that targeting vacation destination-cities along both coasts is the best tactic: anything from San Francisco down to San Diego on the West coast, and anything form Hilton Head or Myrtle Beach in the Carolinas down to the tip of Florida on the East coast would have a good opportunity...
If you plan to come up to San Francisco more than twice a week, don't take public transit (I did the public transit trip from S.F. to the South Bay 5 days a week for several months). If you were working in downtown S.F. it would be a different story, but to get to 9th &...