Silicon Valley is a Dystopia - Tech Nomad in SF

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Silicon Valley is the cradle of innovation. Uber, RU-vid, and Apple all first released from this patch of land. But what many don't know is that it is also a dystopia. Rent is expensive, housing is expensive, and the homeless population has skyrocketed. Companies like Google have built small cities and don't want their employees to leave, making it impossible for the locals to afford to live in the neighborhoods they grew up in.
The main reason why the cost of living is so high in California is housing. Regulations from the '70s and '80s have made it almost impossible to build vertical living, which would be the ideal way to ensure affordable living. Gas, electricity, and just about every other aspect of living in California is more expensive than other states.
Diversity is also a major issue in Silicon Valley. Black workers in tech are a statistical oddity, and only 4.7% of the tech working force is Latino. Women make up only 26% of leadership roles even when they are 44% of the workforce. Burnout, anxiety, and depression are also rampant.
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@AkuNoHana Год назад

I make north of $200k working in tech in the bay, and somehow it still feels impossible to buy a house. NIMBY, low density housing, and complete absence of regulations that would protect the community against exploitation from both local and foreign investments are a bigger problem. I cannot fathom how those not in the tech manage to survive. I'm talking teachers, ones working in grocery & department stores, bankers, construction workers. You see them everyday on Caltrain, Muni, and Bart, and you can just tell how freaking exhausted they are. Even the faintest joy to be had in living has left them a long time ago. I truly feel for them. It truly is a shit hole to live in, at this point I'm saving my money and getting the fuck out of here for good when when I've had enough, which is pretty fucking soon.

@Nvlutey27 Год назад

Tech people from SF were the most self-important people I have ever met.

@googleislame Год назад

I am a (now retired) tech worker and I left San Francisco in 2008 because I could see the writing on the wall - the entire Bay Area is unaffordable to anyone outside of tech and finance. And you cannot have a community consisting entirely of tech workers and bankers. You need school teachers, nurses, garbage men, plumbers, artists, electricians, etc. So I sold my condo and never looked back.

@spectrum838 Год назад

I go to college in Silicon Valley but I’m from the Deep South. I regularly meet people living in RV parks who’s income would make them upper class where I’m from. It feels like a completely different planet and it’s wild to think that it’s the same country

@FindTheFun Год назад

I've been to cities all over the US and Europe. Some where nice, some were dingy, but NOTHING compares to the horrors in West Coast Cities. When I went to SF in 2018 for GDC I saw things I never thought I would. I saw a homeless man with no legs crawling up a sidewalk with his hands. In a Jack in the Box two heroin addicts started fighting in the bathroom and they fell through the door with their pants down covered in shit. I got sick and threw up black slime. I could go on. I will never go back, and honestly the whole experience made me rethink my career in game development.

@jfitz6517 Год назад

So basically the main theme of the video is: California’s focused on protecting the wealth of wealthy individuals & companies, everyone else be damned. Basically California is saying, “Want things to be better for you? Then get rich.”

@AndrewBeals Год назад

As someone who escaped the Valley, I can assure you that this is 100% true. It was an awful place then and it gets worse every time I go back to visit friends - and he didn't even talk about the age discrimination issue.

@salmansengul Год назад

Things I remember when I visited SF in 2019

@andreysleepdeep Год назад

I briefly worked at a hotel in downtown SF. The building was very old and I heard from inspectors that a lot of old buildings and most residential houses in SF are not structurally strong enough to withstand an earthquake.

@jonathanpritchard6464 Год назад

I moved to the bay area in 2015 after accepting an entry-level engineering job paying around $90k, which was far more than both of my parents ever made combined. It didn't take long to figure out that $90k doesn't go very far in the bay. I had a smaller discretionary budget during my 4 years living there than I did working odd jobs in college, between paying $1,400 for a room, the inflated cost of basic staples, and paying on my $60k of student debt. The massive sprawl and lack of good transit in the area also sucks. I lived my first year there without a car before finally buying a beater so that I could feasibly get to places other than work and the grocery store. Finally there's the incredibly warped mindsets of the tech workers that live there. All social interactions revolved around work, tech toys, and the status that those things brought. Non-stop networking was the norm, "where do you work?" was always the first question that people would ask so that they could make a judgement of if they should suck up to you, or ignore you completely.

@ryan_danger Год назад

This is horrific. I work on the railroad. I could not imagine going home to an apartment community that was also owned and branded identically to the railroad, full of pretty much exclusively people doing the same job as me. That is dystopia incarnate

@hillogical Год назад

San Fran is the best example of "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions". A lot of bad ideas have come from people thinking they're doing good.

@mau5atron Год назад

This video reminds me of the time I left college after a year to become a software engineer from 2016-2018 and lived out of my car for an entire year on and off. This was mainly as a way to try to escape the valley and make connections, find work, and make money. I delivered with Postmates in the evenings until I made enough money for the day, then programmed through the night at a 24/7 starbucks. Would find a suitable spot after 3 am to park my car and slept until the sun came up. I would wake up and start programming again until the sun went down.

@MsXfi Год назад

Worst 3 years of my adult life were while living in the Valley, hardest part we all seemed to be having the ride of our lifes while in private everyone was mentally and financially broke.

@kristinnhouse Год назад

I love the Bay Area so much. I was born and raised there. We moved last year to Tulsa with the Tulsa Remote program and as much as I miss California, it feels good to be able to just breathe and actually afford my life. It’s heartbreaking for so many natives to not be able to afford living there but I’m thankful for the opportunity to move and create a livable life

@christinekinzel7850 Год назад

I was born and raised in San Jose. You have no idea how 100% right you are. The problem was already beginning back in the 90's, right around when I left, for the same reason. Mainly, the cost of living was undoable. And it kept getting worse.

@semra156 Год назад

This video hits too close to home. I grew up in Austin and lived there for over 20 years. Now that I’ve finished school and I’m looking at moving back, the housing market is a nightmare, there’s traffic everywhere, and small business that I loved going to as a kid are leaving. Everything has become gentrified, and it pains me to see that the city where I grew up is a shell of its formal self, and doesn’t resemble the weird, fun-loving, laid-back city that I once knew and loved

@tedjohnson64 Год назад

Lines at grocery stores are often ridiculously long because Safeway can’t find enough cashiers. Why? Because no one (unless they’re living their parents, who bought a home decades earlier) can afford to live there. Same applies to many other blue collar jobs.

@OneRedKraken Год назад

I find it interesting that in Canada, the Vancouver area has a similar housing problem. Where rundown shacks go for the price of a mansion.

@selgoog8251 Год назад

It was the mid 90s in a Santa Clara (a town next to San Jose) at a tech mfg biz, a fellow engineer commuted 2 hrs away so he could afford a home for his wife & two children. When his son was 8 & daughter was 4 there would be days when their mom (a nurse) had to work late & the kids would be home by themselves. We both were on edge hoping there wouldn't ever be an emergency at home with the kids.