With all the turmoil and despair of 2020, this article made me happier than I've felt in weeks, because it reminds me of what I don't have to deal with these days.
The Three Bay Areas (2017)
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#12As someone who grew up in the Bay I find it curious to make the distinction that there are three. There's South Bay, East Bay, North Bay and the Peninsula. They're all very different, but lumping in the Peninsula with the South Bay feels hamhanded given that most of the South Bay IS NOT like the Peninsula. It's kind of an in-joke that nobody actually knows where Silicon Valley is.
The article isn't at all about three geographical bay areas, it's about three socioeconomic bay areas. I see elements of all three (but mostly the third) in my neighborhood in SF.
The article, of course, completely misses the stereotypes of people in the Peninsula and South Bay.
I suspect it's because the author is a 20something who doesn't go anywhere the BART won't take him.
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#13This article is bullshit. A house in Potrero for under two million?
Give it a couple of months.
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#14Being from the south, I couldn't relate to anything in this article but I really enjoyed reading it. The author has a good writing style. Is this really the trichotomy of the Bay area? I thought it was interesting that none of these groups are turned out to be Trump supporters. I think it would be fun to contrast this mode of thought with the thought of people in flyover territory, as was done with these groups.
Alameda (East Bay) went 78.7% to Clinton plus another 6.6% to third parties
Santa Clara (South Bay) went 72.2% to Clinton plus another 7.2% to third parties
San Francisco went 85.0% to Clinton, with another 5.7% to third parties
So yeah, painting a picture of three people of different economic backgrounds, it would not be illustrative to make even one of them a supporter of the current regime.
Source: https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2016-general/sov/17-pre...
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#15> You are utterly certain that you are not racist, even though your friend circle is exclusively white, Asian or hapa.
I love how asians are the new whites. For all its worship of success, Americans hate success like no other.
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#16I don’t know about these stereotypes. In my own case, I grew up and went to college in the southeast, moved here for the tech, food, nature, and sunshine, and totally ignore everything political because I’m slightly conservative which makes me feel like an alien around here. Will probably move back at some point to be closer to family but I’m not thrilled about losing the sunshine and nature.
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#17Some pretty exaggerated stereotypes. A false trichotomy?
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#18This reads like a satirical version of Robert Putnam's book Our Kids. I highly recommend it to anyone who's interested in the topic and likes their data interwoven with personal stories to bring it to life.
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#19> You are utterly certain that you are not racist, even though your friend circle is exclusively white, Asian or hapa. I love how asians are the new whites. For all its worship of success, Americans hate success like no other.
Loosely quoted by Iris Chang in "The Chinese in America", when times are good Asians are glorified for being the "model minority" and have all the privilege that Whites have, and vilified as foreigners when times are bad.
Given the current political climate I'm worried we're swinging towards the latter.
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#20This article is bullshit. A house in Potrero for under two million?
A quick Zillow search shows multiple places in Potrero that are for sale and under $2M right now. I've been casually watching the area for most of the year and there's usually a place or two available in the $1.3-$2M range at any given time.