> when you go to almost any house party in those places, it's literally what this guy wrote No, not even those places. This is a classic example of a social bu

> when you go to almost any house party in those places, it's literally what this guy wrote No, not even those places. This is a classic example of a social bubble. There's definitely a higher concentration in those places, but the majority of house parties, even in the Bay Area, are just a lot of drunk shenanigans, beer pong, weed, and not high brow intellectual talk. HN / ACX types are high-education, tech-adjacent, and likely raised outside the area. Their social networks are quite different from the rest of the 8m people here, especially the rest of Alameda county and San Jose, where most of the house parties happen. Even if all parties on the Peninsula were this type, they'd probably account for 2% of Bay Area house parties, those places have been so expensive for so long they're mostly amenable to workaholic and Netflix types. Source: am Bay Area raised and have a foot in both worlds.