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This ignores a huge chunk of the bay area: first generation tech immigrants. Not working class, not elites, not hip.
by ThrowAwayBay 6y ago
This ignores a huge chunk of the bay area: first generation tech immigrants. Not working class, not elites, not hip.
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- dan-robertson 6y agoI don’t think the article is supposed to be a description of every small class of people in the Bay Area. I think it is merely to give an impression of the inner lives of some different people in roughly the same place. Certainly I didn’t read it as “here are representatives of the three sets which partition the population of the Bay Area” so much as “here is what the Bay Area means to three different stereotypes of people I’ve met”
- ThrowAwayBay 6y agoSure, but as a first generation tech immigrant, it made me feel transparent and ignored, since living in the south bay it feels like we are the majority or at least the single largest group. EDIT: Also, the title is The Three Bay Areas, not "A Tale of Three Bay Areas" or alike.
- hkmurakami 6y agoThis was my take away as well, esp since the article uses "The" in the title, which connotates completeness of the coverage. To a certain type of person living here (possibly exclusively spending time in SF proper?), first generation immigrants are invisible or "don't count".
- onecommentman 6y agoPlease don’t obsess about this, especially online. You play into the stereotype of the Bay Area as some latter-day 19th Century Boston, which was described in that era as "applying first principles to trifles". Forget it, kid, it’s Chinatown. Or not.
- twic 6y agoThere are loads of different kinds of people in the Bay Area who aren't on that list. The title vaguely suggests it's a complete census, and indeed it isn't, but as long as you read it as three hopefully interesting sketches of some people you might meet, perhaps it's not too bad.
- TheCoelacanth 6y ago"The Three Little Pigs" is not about the only three little pigs that exist in the entire world. This is just how titles work.
- ac29 6y agoSure, but there are 8+ million people in the Bay Area, so a short piece about three types of people is never going to cover everyone. I'm a Bay Area native, and none of these profiles are anywhere close to describing me. I also live in the South Bay, and "first generation tech immigrants" are definitely not a majority, though that certainly does describe a lot of people. While tech companies are most of the largest employers, employment in retail, health care, education, hospitality and local government are still significant portions of the working base.
- csa 6y agoI am fairly certain that this was written from the perspective of people who were born and raised in the Bay Area, which first generation tech immigrants by definition cannot be. It’s also a whimsical satire piece, so I wouldn’t expect it to include every group. That said, note the the site has follow on stories for each group, so maybe they expanded the groups.
- cortesoft 6y agoThe second one was from Sacramento, which isn’t the Bay Area... and the first one suggest two places they were born that are on the east coast.
- csa 6y agoMy reading was: - friends moved to Sac because it’s cheaper. - some folks went to university on the east coast. Maybe I missed some details.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoplus even if they were from sac, that's basically the east bay. its one hour driving on I-80 from davis to oakland (which is shorter than a lot of people's commute)
- cortesoft 6y agoIt is way more than an hour during commute times.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoits around 2 hours
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- mcntsh 6y agoIf you're a transplant working in tech in SF you're pretty close to elite. The background growing up might not fit, but the lifestyle in SF does.