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Also grew up in the Bay. The peninsula and the South Bay are the epicenter of the Facebook, Google, and Apple wealth. As these companies have flourished, the su
by reducesuffering 7y ago
Also grew up in the Bay. The peninsula and the South Bay are the epicenter of the Facebook, Google, and Apple wealth. As these companies have flourished, the surrounding area has become extremely flush with wealth. It was only a matter of time before the materialism that has been seen in LA and NYC set in as the Bay is in its heyday. If you're looking for humility, you'll find it centered around UC Berkeley and Oakland, as opposed to Stanford. The dichotomy between the two prestigious Bay universities is clear and they are the centers of the differences between the portions of the Bay. It's reflected by the types of students that attend and people drawn to the surrounding areas.
- 205guy 7y agoI was going to say the "humility" went north to SF, that's when SOMA became big and SF went from a banking center with a hippy fringe to a software center with a hipster fringe. Through it all, the old money has lived on Nob hill and shopped at Union Square (the local Nieman Marcus), but look at the gentrification of everything else. The sense of style and fashion of the newly-rich in SF drove the hipster look, which had its own issues but least it was nominally independent and not all about buying flashy brands at stores. I do love the Stanford campus and Palo Alto downtown, but I do think they were marred by the big money. For example, Stanford literally has a luxury fashion mall (probably with a Nieman Marcus store) on campus (and it probably is the most profitable part of the endowment). As for Sunnyvale-Santa Clara-San Jose, they just chose the suburban sprawl development when the money rolled in.