I traded San Francisco's startup scene for a quieter life in Buenos Aires. It's helped me build a family.

Koby Conrad said that San Francisco was "really good for early-career humans." Caroline Tran/Selina Pan Photography Koby Conrad moved from San Francisco to Buenos Aires to build a family. "I love the food, I love the culture, and I love the fact that my rent is 10x cheaper," he told Business Insider. Conrad founded Sunflower, an AI sobriety companion. He said that he's more " locked in " in Buenos Aires. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Koby Conrad, the 32-year-old founder of Sunflower, an AI companion for sobriety. It's been edited for length and clarity. I'm originally from Boise, Idaho, and didn't even realize tech was a thing. My little brother convinced me to move to San Francisco when I was 26. At the time, I had this 2,000-square-foot house, and my mortgage was like $900 a month.