TL/DR: I'm pretty sure everyone in [insert group/place] are a specific kind of asshole and I'm looking for a different kind of asshole to surround myself with.

TL/DR: I'm pretty sure everyone in [insert group/place] are a specific kind of asshole and I'm looking for a different kind of asshole to surround myself with. Please help! You're talking about close to a million people, maybe chill the fuck out and show up with more of an open mind. Or like, don't. [Edit] Uggh. I should probably leave the comment alone, but I feel bad about it so I'll try to add something more constructive. Like every large-enough subculture, the startup-scene tropes have some truth to them but it's still a very large and diverse set of people and ideas. If anything, I feel like the tendency toward a hyped up monoculture has receded in the last couple of years (somewhere in 2011 it seemed like we hit peak-food-photo-founder-rockstar). I don't live in SF but I work for a startup there and travel up there a lot. All told, it's a really incredible city and while there's plenty about the startup culture to find fault in, it remains true that there are is an incredible density of really smart and motivated people there passionately working on stuff. No apparent shortage of meat or beer, either. You can probably go a full day without being forced to eat tofu.