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I'm not sure if this is a real site or not... but let's assume it is, what's the deal with "Stop waiting in line for brunch"? I get the commute and own your own

I'm not sure if this is a real site or not... but let's assume it is, what's the deal with "Stop waiting in line for brunch"? I get the commute and own your own home things, these seem like BIG deals in life. Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area or is this an inside joke or something like that? Everything I know about living around there I've learned from HN and I don't think I've ever seen someone complain or even joke about troubles at brunch.

chipgap98 7y ago
I assume this is a joke about millenials and brunch. Kind of like how millenials can't afford houses because they spend too much money on avocados
- csa 7y ago
  I believe the meme is “avocado toast” — a perfect brunch!
i_am_nomad 7y ago
It honestly seems like a Brooklynite's take on urban woes, without understanding that brunch isn't nearly as big a deal in the Bay Area as it is there.
- robbyt 7y ago
  It's not a problem here.
  - samstave 7y ago
    Seriously. Name the last time you went to brunch. Now name the last time you were so upset at a brunch line that it inspired you to bitch about it online, let alone make it a part of your job-sites pitch...
    - steveklabnik 7y ago
      It's also just volume of spots, and walkability/ease of transport between them. I made a mistake and tried to get brunch at 11am in Bushwick recently, the place didn't open till noon. I walked a few minutes and just got it somewhere else. By 1pm there was a wait, but for the first three hours that spot is open, no big deal at all.
bluntfang 7y ago
There's a joke I like to make at Burning Man when I see lines for dumb shit: If I wanted to wait in line I would've went to San Fransisco.
- stevehawk 7y ago
  having never been to burning man.. what are there lines for at burning man?
JumpCrisscross 7y ago
> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating. New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines out the door to taking reservations. (They may claim to take "reservations" at the door. Those aren't reservations. They're names on a wait list. Lots of waiting.) It's a cultural factor loosely related to (a) recent population and affluence increases outstripping a locale's (b) ability to build new businesses in the midst of (c) a greater value placed on exclusivity than time. (It's also present in Brooklyn and parts of Los Angeles.)
- akhilcacharya 7y ago
  I'm a software engineer at a FANG, in a VHCOL city...and I feel completely out of touch with whatever cultural circles these people live in. > We are three former Googlers who are on a mission to help create jobs in rural and suburban cities around America. Ok, yeah, that explains it
  - ShteiLoups 7y ago
    Could you please explain how that explains it to someone who needs more explanation?
    - akhilcacharya 7y ago
      I'm also a software engineer allegedly in the same cultural circles as these folks...but this brunch reference is honestly baffling to me to an extent that it makes me wonder if I even am in the same class as these folks. I've never even been to brunch!
  - Mountain_Skies 7y ago
    For anyone like me who hasn't seen the VHCOL acronym before: Very High Cost Of Living.
paulgb 7y ago
I think it's meant to be a synecdoche for all of the bad parts of living in a crowded metropolis.
rdiddly 7y ago
It's about waiting in line for everything you have to wait in line for.
mattrp 7y ago
heh last time I stood in line for brunch was in Nashville. There are all sorts of pros/cons wherever you go. I’ve lived in Charlotte, Denver, Chicago, Austin, New York and have traveled enough to places like La, SF, London, etc that I don’t need maps to get around and know many of the neighborhoods fairly well. I don’t have a 6 horse barn like the person above but we did move a bit further out and have a pretty decent chunk of property but I can still be at one of several airports in around an hour. What would I change? I’d be closer to family. My wife and I both grew up as transplants in towns that were separate from our extended families. We don’t know what it’s like to walk down the street to visit grandma. Or having lots of siblings and cousins nearby. I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance who bought a house for his daughter and fiancé to renovate. He and his extended family own close to twenty houses in a neighborhood together - I’m sure they have a whole other set of issues being that close but I’d be happy if close was like a two hour drive or less rather than an all day flight a few times a year. Give that some thought. in my view it almost doesn’t matter where you live. Everything has something nice to like and something you won’t like.

chipgap98 7y ago

I assume this is a joke about millenials and brunch. Kind of like how millenials can't afford houses because they spend too much money on avocados

csa 7y ago
I believe the meme is “avocado toast” — a perfect brunch!

i_am_nomad 7y ago

It honestly seems like a Brooklynite's take on urban woes, without understanding that brunch isn't nearly as big a deal in the Bay Area as it is there.

robbyt 7y ago
It's not a problem here.
- samstave 7y ago
  Seriously. Name the last time you went to brunch. Now name the last time you were so upset at a brunch line that it inspired you to bitch about it online, let alone make it a part of your job-sites pitch...
  - steveklabnik 7y ago
    It's also just volume of spots, and walkability/ease of transport between them. I made a mistake and tried to get brunch at 11am in Bushwick recently, the place didn't open till noon. I walked a few minutes and just got it somewhere else. By 1pm there was a wait, but for the first three hours that spot is open, no big deal at all.

bluntfang 7y ago

There's a joke I like to make at Burning Man when I see lines for dumb shit: If I wanted to wait in line I would've went to San Fransisco.

stevehawk 7y ago
having never been to burning man.. what are there lines for at burning man?

JumpCrisscross 7y ago

> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating. New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines out the door to taking reservations. (They may claim to take "reservations" at the door. Those aren't reservations. They're names on a wait list. Lots of waiting.) It's a cultural factor loosely related to (a) recent population and affluence increases outstripping a locale's (b) ability to build new businesses in the midst of (c) a greater value placed on exclusivity than time. (It's also present in Brooklyn and parts of Los Angeles.)

akhilcacharya 7y ago
I'm a software engineer at a FANG, in a VHCOL city...and I feel completely out of touch with whatever cultural circles these people live in. > We are three former Googlers who are on a mission to help create jobs in rural and suburban cities around America. Ok, yeah, that explains it
- ShteiLoups 7y ago
  Could you please explain how that explains it to someone who needs more explanation?
  - akhilcacharya 7y ago
    I'm also a software engineer allegedly in the same cultural circles as these folks...but this brunch reference is honestly baffling to me to an extent that it makes me wonder if I even am in the same class as these folks. I've never even been to brunch!
- Mountain_Skies 7y ago
  For anyone like me who hasn't seen the VHCOL acronym before: Very High Cost Of Living.

paulgb 7y ago

I think it's meant to be a synecdoche for all of the bad parts of living in a crowded metropolis.

rdiddly 7y ago

It's about waiting in line for everything you have to wait in line for.

mattrp 7y ago

heh last time I stood in line for brunch was in Nashville. There are all sorts of pros/cons wherever you go. I’ve lived in Charlotte, Denver, Chicago, Austin, New York and have traveled enough to places like La, SF, London, etc that I don’t need maps to get around and know many of the neighborhoods fairly well. I don’t have a 6 horse barn like the person above but we did move a bit further out and have a pretty decent chunk of property but I can still be at one of several airports in around an hour. What would I change? I’d be closer to family. My wife and I both grew up as transplants in towns that were separate from our extended families. We don’t know what it’s like to walk down the street to visit grandma. Or having lots of siblings and cousins nearby. I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance who bought a house for his daughter and fiancé to renovate. He and his extended family own close to twenty houses in a neighborhood together - I’m sure they have a whole other set of issues being that close but I’d be happy if close was like a two hour drive or less rather than an all day flight a few times a year. Give that some thought. in my view it almost doesn’t matter where you live. Everything has something nice to like and something you won’t like.