Only 10% of San Francisco's workforce is in the tech sector (transplants, renters)

[zuma.]

...so why do we keep reading about tech? So tired of it. Nearly all people here have nothing to do with it.

Enough!!

[NorCal Dude]

Sf is merely the urban suburb where techies are domiciled.

Most commute to silicon valley for work.

There was a time when anti social techsters stayed in silicon valley, where they belonged.

But now they are eager to water down the city too.

Want to avoid them? Move to an area that is more working class, and has more blacks and latinos.

No google buses, where I'm at.

[Hemlock140]

I don't know where you got that data but if that is people working in SF, as opposed to living there, I can believe it. You have a huge number of people in the educational, financial, service and retail industries there, while many of the high tech people living in SF are commuting south.

[04kL4nD]

Yep. Working in SF as a techie, and being a techie who lives in SF (but works somewhere else) are two completely different things.

[LeroyDeshawnJenkins]

Originally Posted by zuma.

...so why do we keep reading about tech? So tired of it. Nearly all people here have nothing to do with it.

Enough!!

because it isn't the teachers, waiters, and janitors making the rents rise.

[shooting4life]

I'm just wondering if the people living in SF in previous generation bitched as much as the current generation of residents when someone moved into the city.

[04kL4nD]

of course they did. they had to deal with hippies, then gays, and then dotcommers. this isn't some new phenomenon, it's just getting more press.

[john3232]

Originally Posted by 04kL4nD

Yep. Working in SF as a techie, and being a techie who lives in SF (but works somewhere else) are two completely different things.

I`ll take a pair of techies over local hipsters anytime. I`ve got a couple who work with google that make a combined income of over $250,000. They have no problem paying the $3800 monthly rent.

Hipsters? Forget it. They`ll turn your rental into a boarding home first chance they get.

[3rdGen SFan]

Originally Posted by shooting4life

I'm just wondering if the people living in SF in previous generation bitched as much as the current generation of residents when someone moved into the city.

How far back in time? If you mean prior to the 1990s, rent & house prices were more reasonable, and I personally only remember a couple of unreasonably high rent & building lease hikes.

The 1990s was different because more people than usual moved into SF, and a lot of landlords began gouging. Most people blamed the landlords for that because many of the renters who couldn't afford the rents were transplants.

The first tech boom made costs worse, not to mention the traffic & competition for parking, and this new tech boom increased problems for many people, although the tech shuttle buses do help prevent making the traffic & parking competition into a huge disaster.

I don't rent, I'm still able to afford to live here, and I don't compete for parking (gave up driving in the 1990s), but I still have some compassion for people experiencing problems I'd hate to have myself.

[new2Yuppie]

Originally Posted by NorCal Dude

Sf is merely the urban suburb where techies are domiciled.

Most commute to silicon valley for work.

There was a time when anti social techsters stayed in silicon valley, where they belonged.

But now they are eager to water down the city too.

Want to avoid them? Move to an area that is more working class, and has more blacks and latinos.

No google buses, where I'm at.

Where are these IT-tech buses I hear about? never seen them are they in south san fran?