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The article isn't at all about three geographical bay areas, it's about three socioeconomic bay areas. I see elements of all three (but mostly the third) in my
by xvedejas 6y ago
The article isn't at all about three geographical bay areas, it's about three socioeconomic bay areas. I see elements of all three (but mostly the third) in my neighborhood in SF.
- umeshunni 6y agoThe article, of course, completely misses the stereotypes of people in the Peninsula and South Bay. I suspect it's because the author is a 20something who doesn't go anywhere the BART won't take him.
- stu2b50 6y agoBy the way, what are the peninsula stereotypes? I know a few people in redwood but it seems mostly like the same stereotypes, but I really dont know that much about the area.
- distrill 6y agoYeah, I'm confused about this. I live on the peninsula and I have no idea what kind of person I apparently am.
- 205guy 6y agoWell, there are the rich Asians moving south from SF for better weather (the fog belt ends right where property values pick up in Millbrae). Then there are the rich whites moving north to Palo Alto to escape the sprawl of San Jose/Sunnyvale/Mountain View. Said sprawl is mostly vanilla suburban, middle-class families who work in corporate tech. Also new transplants filling in cheaper apartments, as I once was, not cool enough or paid enough to live in SF. Then you have the hard-working and long-time Latino communities getting squeezed in the middle (Redwood City and San Mateo) or pushed into the fog belt (Daly City). There is a bit of the social angst and class-conflict mentioned in the original article, but nowhere near as much--I found the south bay and the peninsula to be much more down-to-earth.