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Do you have any idea how far away from the bay Area I have to go to even see a deer ?


Not very. My sister lives in a suburb of Oakland, and she says she
often has to shoo the deer out of her driveway to park her car at night.
One year, a deer died (apparently of natural causes) on top of the hill
on which her house is built, and the corpse slid down the hill and ended
up hidden underneath her deck. They found it several weeks later, when
the stench was threatening to drive her out of the house.

Kevin