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Originally Posted by Henry Cate
... I am NOT a "poster child" for the dot.com people who blew into town in the 90's. I was a resident of the Valley for decades before that. ...
Yes Henry, you are. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Silicon Valley is
not San Francisco. And neither is Marin, Oakland, Daly City or even South San Francisco. Yes they are all in the Bay Area but go over the bridges or south of the hills and you're in a whole different world.
SF was never a center of computer manufacturing like Silicon Valley. And yes, we all knew perfectly well what was going on down south. But all of a sudden around '94 or so there started to be stories about kids just out of college - or even still in college - making $10K-$20K
a month making web pages for this new fangled internet thing. And then the new Gold Rush started. Web companies sprang up like mushrooms and thousands of tech people showed up. And like you a lot were from Silicon Valley and politically conservative.
And when they found they couldn't fit into or change the culture they became bitter and took off as soon as the bubble burst.
BTW, I do take Muni daily to and from work as well as on weekends and have been for 5 years now.
All I can say to your story is sorry you got mugged.
I really don't think all black people in SF hate you though, even though you seem to hate them.
And as far as your comment about "City Administration decided to erase an entire Black Slum, and ship them all over to Oakland", I don't have a clue what your talking about.
As for your stupid and nasty comments about the AIDS epidemic I'm not going to even bother to get in a discussion with you. I suggest you turn off Fox News and Bill O'reilly and educate yourself on the subject before you embarass yourself anymore.