The rise of "tech" cities and spread of Silicon Valley culture is ruining game.

[Good Gao]

I have observed a trend in the latter half of the decade that just passed with so many jobs moving to the software industry. The Mecca for technology is none other than Silicon Valley but we all know what a chithole culturally The Bay Area is and the low quality of women there. Not only that, it is home to a toxic game culture and some of the most toxic personalities you will find among women on the planet. The dynamics are insane and the demographics include women out of touch with reality and bitter try-hard tech bros.

The problem is, this crap is spreading.

I notice that as tech companies like Google and Amazon for example open offices, they are bringing a lot of these wealthier Bay Area types who in the long-run are infesting the culture of the new places they move to. Now I never get the mentality, you know the last place you moved from was a dump but you want to bring that dump to a new city......

I'd love to hear you guys thoughts on this and how ultimately in the coming decade, this spells doom for almost all major cities which have been good for game.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Probably because you need a fortune to just live a basic life in those places now. I mean a 2 bedroom house that's 1000 sq feet in San Francisco that looks like a shack you would see a homeless person living in on the side of the road was $1.5 million dollars a few years ago...probably only went up now.

Most people aren't living out there they are simply surviving day to day and are one mishap away from financial ruin for the rest of their lives from being severely over extended in all areas, especially housing.

 

[skinnyguy]

Most people want to "get theirs". These people who are entrepreneurs prioritize their innovation/work over getting laid. They don't think about getting laid as much as the guys on this site.

With the rise of these big tech companies, people are getting more and more competitive about entrepreneurship and becoming some big shot player in the business world. Yes, cities like Seattle and Austin are probably getting infested with nerdy dudes. But that's the price that we have to pay for innovation.

Some cities will still be good, like maybe Miami. If anything, this phenomenon we are experiencing should make us recalibrate ourselves to think less about puss.

There are in fact high quality women in the areas you talk about but they are only accessible in the social circles of millionaires and billionaires. It should be no surprise that status trumps everything when it comes to big cities.

 

[Kotaix]

This isn't going to keep going forever. The pendulum will always swing back, and it already feels like it's at the end of it's upward swing. People are getting really sick of walking on eggshells around the snowflakes and are abandoning the silicon valley elite attitude in droves.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

This isn't going to keep going forever. The pendulum will always swing back, and it already feels like it's at the end of it's upward swing. People are getting really sick of walking on eggshells around the snowflakes and are abandoning the silicon valley elite attitude in droves.

Even some of the biggest founders of companies in Silicon Valley like Mark Zuckerberg(Facebook) and others have gone on record saying you would have to be crazy to start a company there today.

 

[Kotaix]

Even some of the biggest founders of companies in Silicon Valley like Mark Zuckerberg(Facebook) and others have gone on record saying you would have to be crazy to start a company there today.

It's interesting that zuckerberg is coming out for free speech now. I don't believe him, not yet, but it's a step in the right direction already.

 

[thinker]

I think this is starting to turn. I speak my mind wherever I am including work. If someone has a problem with me or what I say or think, that's there problem and not mine. The cure to the snow flake PC crybully culture is not backing down. I live in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area which is probably the most liberal area of Florida and I am usually the most popular person in whatever social circle I am in whether it's work or at more social surroundings. It's as if by me sticking to my guns and saying what I really think it gives permission to other people to do the same.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

It's interesting that zuckerberg is coming out for free speech now. I don't believe him, not yet, but it's a step in the right direction already.

Don't believe what? That you'd have to be crazy to start a company where your employers either need 4 roommates, sleep in their cars or have to live 2 hours away?

Bro, FYI maybe that's normal there but its not normal for 90% of the country

 

[Poonani Maker]

Don't believe what? That you'd have to be crazy to start a company where your employers either need 4 roommates, sleep in their cars or have to live 2 hours away?

Bro, FYI maybe that's normal there but its not normal for 90% of the country

That Striving creates nothing but ugliness and UGLY people. You can't run your body into the ground like that and remain good-looking into your late 30s/early 40s. There's Burnout, and as others have said "this can't last forever" and it will ALL come crashing down. Lives will be lost. We are humans, not robots and we don't live forever. That's the problem with many in denial young people is they think youth goes on forever (video gaming lost hours), the day of reckoning says otherwise. Self respect needs to come back and groveling or dehumanization needs to go. I'm glad I never strived and pined and boot-licked for a buck. You can go all out, but you can't go all out indefinitely. As you relax, as you vacation, you Lose your drive and your purpose or focus over time. With each vacation, you lose your ability to earn what you once set out to earn, unless you Know people, powerful people that you must submit to, maybe even in the most carnal ways imaginable.

 

[Roober]

This isn't going to keep going forever. The pendulum will always swing back, and it already feels like it's at the end of it's upward swing. People are getting really sick of walking on eggshells around the snowflakes and are abandoning the silicon valley elite attitude in droves.

With the country swinging so far left, I wouldn't be surprised to have it swing far right next, more traditional conservative values.

 

[Good Gao]

Yes this was exactly my experience in SF. When you don’t have access to social circles, you are stuck with the ugs and fatties in the clubs. It’s not like nyc or LA where there are attractive women everywhere. SF is the most elitist city probably in all of America and till this day, my mind still thinks I need to infiltrate social circles.

But once I broke into the circles, I suddenly realized that all the beautiful women knew each other in an entire city radius. It was as if high school never ended.

The game just got more elitist and the barrier of entry higher.

But then I moved to the East coast and experienced a culture shock. I went from women being elitist and entitled to women being insecure and going for coke dealers and ex Convicts, lol.

And the winter gets cold in the East coast. Nobody gives a sh1t about you or your reputation, people have bills to pay and families to feed. The people seem almost human.

When you move from a place like SF, it’s easy to think that most people are emotionless robots.

So I hope SF culture never spreads. It’s the only city I’ve ever been to where I would see grown 50 year old men wearing a suit and tie with a pair sneakers and riding a skateboard to work trying to look like he’s 21, while listening to his gold iPhone and completely oblivious of traffic.

You have described San Francisco to a tee, the part that gets me the most that you did not mention is the moral self-righteousness of these people. I mean the same emotionless robots are creating campaigns to be seen as "helping" others but you will find it is as fake as it comes. One thing that has stuck to me about San Francisco is the level of sociopathic behavior in that city, it truly cannot be rivaled.

I have not been to any other city where I found people to be that evil and scheming, none.

 

[MatureDJ]

Don't believe what? That you'd have to be crazy to start a company where your employers either need 4 roommates, sleep in their cars or have to live 2 hours away?

Bro, FYI maybe that's normal there but its not normal for 90% of the country

The crazier thing is the employees that put up with that bullsheet instead of moving to somewhere sane.

 

[MatureDJ]

This is funny and brings back memories. I met a woman once who invited me over her place. She ended up living in an attic of a house exactly like you described. I thought she might have been homeless or the hippie type. Turns out her house was $4.5 million and she made over 150k a year but had to live with like 10 room mates. That’s pretty much The Bay Area in a nutshell. I think one of her roommates lived in a closet and he was marketing fm manager or something.

I also met a woman who lived in an attic - only the house was worth only $45K (about 2X to adjust to today's prices), and she worked for the Army.