My impression is that the bay area is an area with a few viable ways to make a living, and is it just that the lower class has to live in the dangerous areas of Oakland (and elsewhere) to just have a roof over their head?
There is no shortage of fast food workers, waiters, retail workers, coffee shop workers, handymen, etc. It's expensive to live in the Bay Area, but clearly those people are able to make a living or they wouldn't be around anymore.
And they don't all commute from far away. I know plenty of people working those jobs who live in the Bay Area near their places of work.
There's a lot of inertia to people and their geography. The absolute loss of non-tech activity may be small for now, but ask anyone who hires people outside our industry where the think their organization will be in 10 years.
A colleague once remarked, "It's the second derivative of the thing that'll get you."
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There is no shortage of fast food workers, waiters, retail workers, coffee shop workers, handymen, etc. It's expensive to live in the Bay Area, but clearly those people are able to make a living or they wouldn't be around anymore.
And they don't all commute from far away. I know plenty of people working those jobs who live in the Bay Area near their places of work.
There's a lot of inertia to people and their geography. The absolute loss of non-tech activity may be small for now, but ask anyone who hires people outside our industry where the think their organization will be in 10 years.
A colleague once remarked, "It's the second derivative of the thing that'll get you."