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The Bay Area is cursed

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/the-bay-area-is-cursed
8•eatitraw•2h ago

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rossdavidh•1h ago
Not having lived in the Bay Area in this millennium, I have no idea how accurate this is, so I would be curious to hear from any current Bay Area residents.
kappi•1h ago
If you are looking for white people culture you won't find it. Young demography is mostly ORM males, I guess that's true across other age groups also.
thelastgallon•1h ago
>ORM males

Object-Relational Mapping males?

bdangubic•1h ago
it is males that hibernate
thelastgallon•1h ago
I don't know about the dating scene, but Bay Area has the costliest slums on the planet. Living arrangement are at par with slums in Mumbai, but cost $4569/month. It is usually the size of master bedroom closet of any other home in the rest of US.

Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded - Yogi Berra

anon291•33m ago
This is honestly incredibly wrong. My family is from Mumbai. Like literally the indigenous people of Mumbai and I grew up in CA and lived many years in the bay. The idea that anywhere in India is remotely comparable to the bay area (except for gated communities) is honestly the sort of deranged take that many online Indian nationals make. But for people who have actually been to both cities the difference is obvious.

There is nothing like Dharavi in the bay area. There is some visible poverty in the bay, but it's not at that scale at all . Not to mention the functioning animal control, flood control, etc.

thelastgallon•15m ago
Rent in Dharavi is $4/month[1]. Not $4000 - $5000 for pretty much the same square footage and nearly identical neighbourhoods. If you are a resident of Atherton or Los Altos Hills, you probably never noticed how the rest of Bay Area is. Dharavi also has functional public transport. Bay area has 'bullet' trains that take 1 - 2 hours to go 30 miles. Almost all of bay area is in the mobile home parks/zones, which is for all intents and purposes considered slums anywhere in the US and are pretty far off from the main city and suburbs (and horrible school district). Usually, rent at these places is a couple of hundred dollars, but in bay area, these are a few thousand dollars.

Source: I lived in the bay area (all 3 bays). I also lived in ~20 other cities all over US.

[1]From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/dharavi_slum/...

Today's Dharavi bears no resemblance to the fishing village it once was. A city within a city, it is one unending stretch of narrow dirty lanes, open sewers and cramped huts.

In a city where house rents are among the highest in the world, Dharavi provides a cheap and affordable option to those who move to Mumbai to earn their living.

Rents here can be as low as 185 rupees ($4/£2.20) per month. As Dharavi is located between Mumbai's two main suburban rail lines, most people find it convenient for work.

Even in the smallest of rooms, there is usually a cooking gas stove and continuous electricity.

thelastgallon•1h ago
I don't think its all that bad as the writer makes it sound. Most of the people will be moving into PODS[1] and have plenty of dating opportunities and marriage[2]!

[1]For $700 a month, renters will soon be able to live in sleeping pods in San Francisco: https://abc7chicago.com/post/exclusive-san-francisco-sleepin...

[2]They met on that couch at PodShare Westwood a year ago and today they got married! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzi6Lm0B6rs/#

jcalvinowens•29m ago
> Someone recently said to me: “I’m tired of drinking in living rooms with overly smart people.”

So stop doing that.

"Tech people" are not even a plurality in the greater bay area, let alone a majority. If all you see is tech people everywhere you go, that's your fault. Maybe take some responsibility for your outcomes, and go more interesting places, instead of deciding a metropolis of millions of people is somehow beneath you...

typs•24m ago
I agree with this. It's a critique you'll hear often from intellectual elites who prefer NYC. But most people, even in the bay area, are people with many interests who don't talk about intellectual things all the time!

"Mid-tier cities" are great too and have rich social fabrics if you look for them as well!

forthwall•16m ago
There's definitely two bay areas that exist, one full of the people who think SF as an idea of pure capitalism and hedonism who wish to build a tech orgy utopia and then the one where everyone else lives, screaming too $hort's favorite word in a market street interview, commuting 3 hours from antioch to sweep the floors at a hillsborough estate, or going to "the view" with their SO after eating a oreily autoparts taco truct in their localities preferred hilltop

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