> Ok, how about a Facebook engineer who married a woman that grew up in rural East Tennessee? Is that close enough? I would say the author’s observation is more

> Ok, how about a Facebook engineer who married a woman that grew up in rural East Tennessee? Is that close enough? I would say the author’s observation is more due to the limited crossover between FANG engineers and the rural southeastern U.S. than any sort of innate principles of attraction. More to the point, next to the trouble of them meeting, there is also a pretty big cultural difference [1] between these states. A FAANG engineer is probably closer in their views and interests to a cashier working in SF than a similarly positioned businessman in rural Texas. [1] Note that this is an uninformed opinion from across the pond.