Hal made his home in Silicon Valley not long after Contact thanks to just how welcoming they were to the first Peloran delegations. He started the Terran branch of the cybernetic families from that house and is pretty much at least partially responsible for just about every single cyber that has ever decided to settle down on Earth. Not that you’d hear Betty ever admit it. She is here because her mama decided to help us fight The War and all. Hal had nothing to do with it if you ask her. But I’ve been to his house and I beg to differ. I fell in love it with it and I’m not even a cyber. I can only imagine what the electronic senses see in that place.