Do people in San Jose consider themselves part of the "Bay Area" (Los Angeles: incomes, to live)

[sustainovation]

San Jose is in the Bay Area. If someone from San Francisco doesn't think it is then its because they're stupid. Or, more likely, they grew up in [insert random state] and don't know anything about the Bay Area.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by sustainovation

San Jose is in the Bay Area. If someone from San Francisco doesn't think it is then its because they're stupid. Or, more likely, they grew up in [insert random state] and don't know anything about the Bay Area.

I call it the "Sex and the City West wannabe" syndrome. Picture the new grad, living with lots of room mates in Pacific Heights or the Marina ... like omigod! ... you get the picture ...

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

I call it the "Sex and the City West wannabe" syndrome. Picture the new grad, living with lots of room mates in Pacific Heights or the Marina ... like omigod! ... you get the picture ...

Haha, so I'm not the only person who references that show when describing the modern SF attitude toward virtually everything?

[roadwarrior101]

Originally Posted by krudmonk

Haha, so I'm not the only person who references that show when describing the modern SF attitude toward virtually everything?

Its not just the attitude towards the rest of the bay area. It is how people in the Marina, Cow Hollow and Pac Heights view even the other parts of the city. Other than taking the bus to work in the Financial District, they won't venture to places even like SOMA and they can't understand why others wouldn't choose to live in their small hoods. Pretty ridiculous.

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Radical347

So true. One of my friends was telling me that she was thinking of moving to "San Francisco"...and then she tells me about a bunch of neighborhoods in Oakland that she was specifically looking at.

I've had that happen. People from Socal especially do that. Here, you live in San Diego regardless of what your actual city is. It's the same for LA. In my whole life of knowing people from LA I think only two actually were from the city of Los Angeles.

BTW OP, Silicon Valley is a nickname. The areas real/original name is Santa Clara Valley.

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by sustainovation

San Jose is in the Bay Area. If someone from San Francisco doesn't think it is then its because they're stupid. Or, more likely, they grew up in [insert random state] and don't know anything about the Bay Area.

Exactly, the Bay Area is a large and diverse place with each region having a very distinct feel and culture but still belong to the same region.

[sonarrat]

San Jose has bay frontage. Ergo, it is indisputably part of the Bay Area, even if you don't choose to include the South Valley (I do, for many reasons).

[Bayarea4]

I am a long-time San Franciscan who grew up in Santa Clara Valley and I can tell you that San Jose is, and always has been, part of the Bay Area. I've never heard of this so-called San Francisco "attitude."

[AllenSJC]

The Bay Area is like Southern California in that there are multiple centers of gravity (San Francisco, East Bay, Peninusla, Silicon Valley) while in SoCal there is LA, Orange County, and San Diego.

Of course, usually there is one city that "dominates" overall. It used to be San Fransisco for the Bay Area, but nowadays the Silicon Valley is in some ways MORE influential.

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by Bayarea4

I am a long-time San Franciscan who grew up in Santa Clara Valley and I can tell you that San Jose is, and always has been, part of the Bay Area. I've never heard of this so-called San Francisco "attitude."

No? We've heard it...many times. They're called 1) Tourists; 2) SF residents; 3) bloggers with their heads up their ass