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The article seems to combine San Francisco and the Bay Area into one thing, which feels wrong. I very much doubt San Francisco would miss the tech bros if they
by untog 8y ago
The article seems to combine San Francisco and the Bay Area into one thing, which feels wrong. I very much doubt San Francisco would miss the tech bros if they fled San Francisco. If they fled the Bay Area? Maybe.
- nickthemagicman 8y agoI suspect most outside the Bay Area don't know difference.
- DougN7 8y agoI’m outside California and didn’t know the difference :)
- skissane 8y agoIt is common for people to elide the distinction between X city proper and X metro area. Obviously locals are much more aware of the distinction, and people further away are much less aware of it. Most people who don't live there wouldn't know where the boundary between San Fransisco proper ("the City and County of San Francisco") and the other parts of San Francisco metropolitan area ("San Francisco Bay Area") actually lies, so it is quite natural for them to mentally merge the two concepts. But, people who keep this distinction clear in their minds for San Francisco, may well fail to do so for other cities, especially cities in other countries.
- dragonwriter 8y agoYeah, but most people outside the Bay Area aren't writing about how the Bay Area would respond to hypotheticals demographic changes. (And, how policy changes in SF proper might produce those changes.) Everyone qualified to do that also recognizes the difference between the City and County of San Francisco and the larger Bay Area, and between both of those and Northern California; the article conflates all of those (suggesting at one point that certain new SF municipal regulations are designed to protect Northern California’s traditional “easygoing, uncrowded and quiet” lifestyle, which is a thing that might exist outside of or on the periphery of the Bay Area within Northern California, but certainly isn't how most people would describe most of the Bay Area, or San Francisco specifically.)
- dictum 8y agoSame as the difference between "techbros" and journalists who report on Silicon Valley, for anyone outside of either group. It's narcissism of small differences all the way down. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differen...