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I don't get C# regions, either. At least Visual Studio makes it easy to auto-expand them and effectively ignore them while jumping around with incremental search and goto definition. Admittedly, this would be a problem if the rest of the team cared about maintaining the regions.

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I admit that sometimes I find them handy to use when dealing with large complex files. Grouping together member variables, events, statics can help with reducing the initial noise when opening the file (these tend to be at the top of the class usually).

But they indeed depend on the team's total commitment on keeping them organized and up-to-date.

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