"The primary issue the Bay Area has is that, as you mentioned, there is no in-between. It's either skyscrapers or gigantic houses with expansive yards. What the

"The primary issue the Bay Area has is that, as you mentioned, there is no in-between. It's either skyscrapers or gigantic houses with expansive yards. What the area actually needs is more mixed-use development neighborhoods." The Bay Area is a very large, very diverse place and has plenty of the inbetween of which you speak. In fact, right in the epicenter of this particular Silicon Valley - in downtown Mountain View, for instance, there is quite a bit of medium density, two and three story apartment complexes centered around the small downtown. Or take the N-Judah all the way to the beach - that's filled with two and three story apartment buildings. Certainly, many people believe that's the problem - it should be four and five story apartment buildings - but it is really not true at all that the Bay Area is "either skyscrapers or gigantic houses with expansive yards".