This article is bullshit. A house in Potrero for under two million?
Article was written in 2017. So maybe in 2014-ish the protagonist of Story 1 bought the house??
The Three Bay Areas (2017)
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#62> charmed by the feral chickens that roamed the streets freely.[0] Holy shit I never thought I’d see my hometown mentioned in this context. Yes, the chickens roam old town (maybe a square mile) freely but you don’t really see them elsewhere. They are really loud though. [0] https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-California-towns-wh...
Ah yes, after seeing that I thought immediately Yuba City, near Wendys.
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#63You can recognize the "Three" crowd on dating sites by their first sentence which is usually something like "Bay area native"
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#64Being 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.
The author is painting with a broad brush but some of it does resonate with me. Realistically most people I know are a combination of two or more of those "bay areas". Although I was not from the bay area "proper" as many "true bay area people" would remind me being from the most southern town in Santa Clara county :)
Gilroy is the same distance from SF as Sacramento--and Stockton is closer. Also, Gilroy is not even in the SF Bay watershed. However, unlike many places in the Bay Area, it does boast a direct rail link to downtown SF.
Not trying to exclude you, I've lived in San Jose and on the peninsula, neither of which was worthy of being stereotyped in the original article. It's better to avoid those games anyway.
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#65Earlier 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.
Well, there are the rich Asians moving south from SF for better weather (the fog belt ends right where property values pick up in Millbrae). Then there are the rich whites moving north to Palo Alto to escape the sprawl of San Jose/Sunnyvale/Mountain View. Said sprawl is mostly vanilla suburban, middle-class families who work in corporate tech. Also new transplants filling in cheaper apartments, as I once was, not cool enough or paid enough to live in SF. Then you have the hard-working and long-time Latino communities getting squeezed in the middle (Redwood City and San Mateo) or pushed into the fog belt (Daly City). There is a bit of the social angst and class-conflict mentioned in the original article, but nowhere near as much--I found the south bay and the peninsula to be much more down-to-earth.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
The author is painting with a broad brush but some of it does resonate with me. Realistically most people I know are a combination of two or more of those "bay areas". Although I was not from the bay area "proper" as many "true bay area people" would remind me being from the most southern town in Santa Clara county :)
Gilroy is the same distance from SF as Sacramento--and Stockton is closer. Also, Gilroy is not even in the SF Bay watershed. However, unlike many places in the Bay Area, it does boast a direct rail link to downtown SF. Not trying to exclude you, I've lived in San Jose and on the peninsula, neither of which was worthy of being stereotyped in the original article. It's better to avoid those games anyway.
Just want to say, growing up, SF was not the center of the universe in the bay area. If anything the south bay seemed more of a draw and I spent plenty of time in San Jose, Maintain View etc.
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#67You order your groceries via app. You make restaurant reservations via app. You have your laundry picked up via app. You manage your investments via app. You have casual sex via app. You refill your Xanax prescription via app. modern (American) Psycho
I was thinking Dorsia.
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#68You order your groceries via app. You make restaurant reservations via app. You have your laundry picked up via app. You manage your investments via app. You have casual sex via app. You refill your Xanax prescription via app. modern (American) Psycho
I was thinking Dorsia.
How did you manage to get a reservation?!
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#69You order your groceries via app. You make restaurant reservations via app. You have your laundry picked up via app. You manage your investments via app. You have casual sex via app. You refill your Xanax prescription via app. modern (American) Psycho
I was thinking Dorsia.
Great sea urchin ceviche!
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#70$1.1 mil for a 2 bedroom house in Potrero is a steal.