I lived in the Bay Area and daily drove a manual ‘91 MX-5 on the streets (hills) of San Francisco for over two decades, don’t me started on tailgaters at stop signs and traffic lights— you learn pretty quickly to modulate the clutch/gas/handbrake or you roll backwards and die.
Now I live in the flattest place on Earth (South Florida, and driving a ‘17 manual BRZ- only have had to use the handbrake on a “hill” a few times in almost 3 years, and never turned on the hillstart assist even once
). I miss the hills.