This fluff piece doesn't quite make sense. The tech sector is and has been for some time spread across most areas of the greater Bay Area. While nothing North o

This fluff piece doesn't quite make sense. The tech sector is and has been for some time spread across most areas of the greater Bay Area. While nothing North of Menlo Park or in Alameda county is part of the "Silicon Valley," the latter is just a PR term. Tech companies are densest from SF down to San Jose. "Silicon Valley" is neither a distinct geographical nor an economic unit. There are some "sociological" differences across areas in that range with respect to the types of the companies and types of employees. Ignoring those trends to cause staffing problems, e.g. building a new consumer web company in South is rather hard, while trying to start a new semiconductor company in SF would be challenging to say the least. Many people immigrate here without understanding that, and problems ensue. The "San Francisco Bay Area" is a large and diverse region with a population of roughly 6 million. About 10% of those people are directly involved at tech companies, and about 5% are the hard-to-find developers, product managers, testers, etc. Sadly this one minority sector of the economic absolutely dominates most sub-regions here, and it's economic power is so much greater than all the other people together, that a host of problems arise. The presence of the bay and the surrounding hills also kinds of screws things up. Space is limited, and travel between certain areas can be time-consuming. If you consider that roughly 1/3 of the people currently residing in the Bay Area currently are not from here originally, then throw in the vast economic changes tech caused over the last 30 years, you can start to appreciate that maybe long-term planning for the present state wasn't quite manageable. In any event, the rhetoric about "sovereignty" and its similes is always self-serving and posturing. Decentralization of tech, or the decentralization of L.A.'s entertainment industry for that matter, would be a boon to everyone. Only self-important people who want to believe that their region or state or country or village is the center of the freaking universe fail to accept that. It would be better for everyone if the Bay Area were simply one of a set of 20 or so equally large and vibrant centers of tech.