Bay Area is a bubble
Would encourage all the techies working in Bay Area to take a vacation once in a while and travel the country/world. Talk to local people when you are traveling and get a broader perspective. You will be surprised to know how lucky you are and how much more money you are earning than most of the people in the world. When we are only living in a bubble of bay area surrounded by similar techie people, we lose perspective. Just thought of sharing this experience with everyone 😊
Bay Area, Seattle…all same stories
Don’t know much about Seattle, but in Bay Area people earn a lot of money, but very easy to lose the perspective.
Seattle area is all Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, Expedia and now Google, Salesforce, Facebook. Pretty much everyone is mostly in tech and earning above avg. definitely a bubble
I remind myself of this almost daily.
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like 450k at current spac target
I would put it the other way round. Talking to people from other cultures will make you realize how unlucky you are that you’re only spending time running in the rat race and how mundane your life is inspite of the huge amounts of money you make living in the Bay Area. I came here from a family of diplomats. The exposure and joy we had as kids growing up in different countries was unparalleled. Then I landed in the Bay Area. Enjoyed it for the first few years but soon it got mundane and rat-racey. The quality of people at many places in the world is also so much better than what we encounter here. If somebody asks me today, I’d say there are many better places in the world to live. Traveling the world will make you realize what you’re missing out on. The unfortunate problem is that people will travel as “tourists”. That never helps one truly absorb a place or it’s culture. That only happens if you actually “live” in a place.
But not everyone has luxury of changing place every few years like diplomats. No matter wherever you plan to live, it will get mundane. I usually focus on positives 😊
I didn't come from such a privileged background but I still got a chance to visit the world and even meet travelers locally and abroad. I think it's more about being grateful we have what we have. And just reminding ourselves to give back while we live.
1000% a bubble but if you only hang with tech people in the bay you are missing the majority of the population and fun.
True.
Ya agree, but most of the folks I know are from tech background. People who are not in tech usually find it difficult to live in Bay Area because of cost of living. Many of my non techie friends are in mid west and east coast.
Agree. Especially if you're the liberal type that has a tendency to overblow first world problems. Definitely good to get some perspective. And don't travel in a safety bubble. Actually go backpack around and talk to people in other countries, learn about their livelihoods. It'll make you genuinely open minded rather than "woke" minded.
Ya true. There are bigger problems in the world than cancelling Dave Chappelle 😂
Oh totally. And when people here say "people are literally dying", or "I'm a survivor", I cringe. Most of the people saying that have never come close to actual dangers like the average person outside of the OECD has.
So what kind of perspective did you gain OP? Share your stories
yes OP please share some of your own experiences
There are adults in this country that are getting paid $7.25 per hour of labor. There are minors in this country that are getting $4.25 per hour of labor.
Travel the country and talk to locals? But I don't wanna face xenophobic treatment from a redneck in maga county.
That's what OP means about perspective. If you actually went to "MAGA country" you'd quickly see it's not as bad all the left-wing media fear-mongering makes it out to be. Yeah they're conservative and there's a lot of poverty and under-education in many of those areas but even still most people in even the worst of those underserved areas aren't militant white supremacists just itching to lynch someone (or even white for that matter). They're mostly just trying to get by day to day and don't really have the time or energy to spend fixating on shit like that. I've seen that a lot of places in "MAGA country" are often actually less segregated and in a better overall state of race relations than the big Democrat-dominated coastal cities nowadays. Much less weird horseshoe effect fetishization shit and people making divisions solely based on racial identity politics and trying to claim that racism is to blame for literally everything that's wrong in their community.
I know immigrant friends who visited maga county, and were told to go back where they came from. I have faced xenophobia in metropolitan city centers, where locals feel threatened that I as an immigrant can come into their country and have better career prospects.
Why is no one comparing Bay area with NYC? Comparable income and housing! Maybe not techies, but I thought the bubble was high income.
I remember where I came from... Never forget
Kony 2012?