This is way too simplistic to segment the Bay Area into 3 social-economic classes. I've seen people from what the author describes but way more other types/classes of people.
The Three Bay Areas (2017)
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#32This ignores a huge chunk of the bay area: first generation tech immigrants. Not working class, not elites, not hip.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
By the way, what are the peninsula stereotypes? I know a few people in redwood but it seems mostly like the same stereotypes, but I really dont know that much about the area.
Yeah, I'm confused about this. I live on the peninsula and I have no idea what kind of person I apparently am.
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#34This ignores a huge chunk of the bay area: first generation tech immigrants. Not working class, not elites, not hip.
I don’t think the article is supposed to be a description of every small class of people in the Bay Area. I think it is merely to give an impression of the inner lives of some different people in roughly the same place. Certainly I didn’t read it as “here are representatives of the three sets which partition the population of the Bay Area” so much as “here is what the Bay Area means to three different stereotypes of people I’ve met”
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#35The author seems to be unhappy about parents being able to pass some of their success on to their children.
If you couldn't do it, would there much motivation to succeed in the first place?
From another angle, does the movement to equalize children have any chances against those above the median (and those from below hoping to get ahead)?
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#36This ignores a huge chunk of the bay area: first generation tech immigrants. Not working class, not elites, not hip.
I don’t think the article is supposed to be a description of every small class of people in the Bay Area. I think it is merely to give an impression of the inner lives of some different people in roughly the same place. Certainly I didn’t read it as “here are representatives of the three sets which partition the population of the Bay Area” so much as “here is what the Bay Area means to three different stereotypes of…
Sure, but as a first generation tech immigrant, it made me feel transparent and ignored, since living in the south bay it feels like we are the majority or at least the single largest group.
EDIT: Also, the title is The Three Bay Areas, not "A Tale of Three Bay Areas" or alike.
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#37As 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.
And it's also changed so much. I grew up in Sunnyvale and the Silicon Valley of my youth (80s-dot com bust) are so different from now. I'm guessing there's a drastically different view of the place based on both your age and when you first moved to SV.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think the article is supposed to be a description of every small class of people in the Bay Area. I think it is merely to give an impression of the inner lives of some different people in roughly the same place. Certainly I didn’t read it as “here are representatives of the three sets which partition the population of the Bay Area” so much as “here is what the Bay Area means to three different stereotypes of…
Sure, but as a first generation tech immigrant, it made me feel transparent and ignored, since living in the south bay it feels like we are the majority or at least the single largest group. EDIT: Also, the title is The Three Bay Areas, not "A Tale of Three Bay Areas" or alike.
This was my take away as well, esp since the article uses "The" in the title, which connotates completeness of the coverage.
To a certain type of person living here (possibly exclusively spending time in SF proper?), first generation immigrants are invisible or "don't count".
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#39I enjoyed this. I probably read it in 2017 but it carries new meaning given the new vectors of disparity. Of these caricatures of late 20-somethings, two are likely now out of work and dealing with a whole new set of problems. The third mostly complains about having to work from home and how food delivery is less reliable than it used to be.
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#40As 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.
I agree on the geolocation in the bay area being a huge factor. I grew up in the South Bay(wife grew up on the Pennisula) and where you lived made a huge difference. A person who owns a small construction business or was a mid manager in the south bay(San Jose, Santa Clara..) could be at the top of the spectrum so to speak in this article(their kids go to USC, Stanford etc,) and the same person on the pennisula would be solidly middle class(kids have to attend state school or mid-tier) due to funds). I knew friends parents who both had advanced science degrees and lived in the Pennisula(Mtn View, Palo Alto) and were forever renters due to cost of living and this was late 90's early 2000's.