The San Francisco Bay Area in California, USA, is Jan Wilmake's target relocation destination as of 2025. The plan to move there — together with his fiancée Bruna — is a recurring strategic motivation that shapes Jan's networking priorities, career decisions, and startup positioning across his 2025 diary and notes.
As of August 2025, Jan had formulated a clear sequence: "First Palo Alto, close to networking — target Woodside or other hilly area close to nature after."[1] Palo Alto was the initial target for proximity to the Bay Area tech ecosystem, with Woodside (a wooded, hillside community adjacent to Palo Alto) identified as a longer-term residential preference combining nature access with proximity to the network.
The Bay Area move was discussed in conjunction with Jan and Bruna's marriage plans. Jan noted these together as a package of major life changes he was committing to in mid-2025.[1]
Jan's interest in the Bay Area is not generic ambition — it is specifically tied to:
Jan's contractor role at Parallel_AI — a San Francisco AI company — was partly chosen because it offered a bridge toward Bay Area integration without requiring an immediate visa or relocation. The Parallel AI relationship represented an on-ramp: establishing Bay Area credibility and connections before physically relocating.
Following the November 2025 psychosis episode and subsequent recovery, the Bay Area relocation timeline is uncertain. Jan returned to Groningen to recover, and his early 2026 notes focus on the 2026 career search including the New Nexus opportunity in Groningen — suggesting the Bay Area move has been deferred but not abandoned.
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