I say Fox News because it’s extremly similar in character to “people’s republic of berkeley”, “demifornia,” and other ridiculous names I’ve seen only online. These are people who always seem to be leaving the state because of the damn libruals or asking the immigration status of any criminal, or talking about how bad traffic is now, compared to the golden days when the economy was fruit based.
To be serious for a moment, what exactly is silly about SV? The only negative is that real estate prices are high, which is a direct result of economic success in the region. So silly. Much wow.
Plenty of silly. Keep in mind, born and raised around here, and had a great career in Tech.
Adding thousands of high-paying jobs yet for the most part refusing to build housing is silly. More than silly, it's cruel.
Allowing entrenched homeowners (of which I am) to force an urban-sprawl footprint of low-density housing is silly. For an area that claims to be eco conscious it's ridiculous that people are being priced out to super-commute areas such as Tracy, Gilroy, Hollister, and even Los Banos and Stockton.
It's silly that BART doesn't at least circle the entire bay. If I recall correctly, history is that the rich white folks on the peninsula feared riff-raff coming in on public transit. So now all commuters and the environment suffer because of this silliness.
It's silly that people protest the tech busses (and the protests themselves are often *very* silly), instead of recognizing that a company treating its employees well while also getting cars off the road is a win-win and more companies should do this, not less.
It's silly that multiple municipalities have increased taxes on new housing in an attempt to make housing more affordable...SMH.
It's silly that in the midst of a housing shortage on the level of a crisis that multiple municipalities in SV are instituting Rent Control, which economists almost unanimously agree will make the housing crisis worse. (Rent Control advocates are the Left's version of Climate Change deniers).
It's silly when a
company with nothing more than vaporware and a supposed wonderkid founder is vaulted to $9B valuation with very few questions asked while refusing to adhere to industry standards, botches life critical blood tests, and then implodes and dissolves completely. There are many other examples of unrealistic expectations/valuation (the "Unicorn Zombies"), but won't go into it here.
Almost the entirety of the Tech Bubble 1.0 was extremely silly.
Yes, silly aplenty.