Not all of it tribal yet, but I see parts of it being jammed into place locally to create techie 'slave' tribes of immigrants.
Five years ago I could see that a special development plan was being installed in my former residential Bay Area tech city. Affordable one or two story apartment buildings were being bought up and torn down and being replaced by expensive five story apartment buildings to house tech yuppies and immigrant labor (H1B). All the former illegal immigrant labor was driven out by this and all the Ford F150 gardener trucks vanished. Main thoroughfare streets turned into 'concrete' canyons.
The small dense downtown area was replaced by tall corporate buildings, at street level turned into a soulless modern glass architecture maze of wine boutiques, chi-chi $12.00 burger sit downs, shitty little chic foreign food restaurants where all the Indian execs would lunch. All soul was removed. Closest grocery if you lived near downtown now was Target. The entire former nice small-town downtown was turned into a horrible barren treeless street zone. Very unfriendly sidewalks with a sterile vibe.
In the process, they also destroyed ALL the former techie stores that once gave Silicon Valley its entrepreneurial spirit. Google bought and kicked out one of the great electronic surplus stores; a land developer bought another one and put them out of business to build a 40 acre monster from hell home zone with $2.2 million shitty townhouses. No yards, no garages, bedrooms on 3rd floor (climb those stairs as you get older, yeah) https://www.zillow.com/community/nuevo/13867174_plid/. The last ham radio store here was forced out by high rents. (All the Fry's stores are still open but empty with no product on shelves.) Now, no one builds electronic things as an individual, only as a serf in a corporation.
It has been the end of an era, the soul of the Valley is gone due to development. The Agenda 2030 people have made it impossible for another Jobs and Woz to get started here. And there are no or many fewer garages in which to make something.
What will happen here is that the techies and liberals in this zone will bond and the previous townspeople will not be in that group. We see this in city council meetings.
I could not stand it and have moved away.
Not all of it tribal yet, but I see parts of it being jammed into place locally to create techie 'slave' tribes of immigrants.
Five years ago I could see that a special development plan was being installed in my former residential Bay Area tech city. Affordable one or two story apartment buildings were being bought up and torn down and being replaced by expensive five story apartment buildings to house tech yuppies and immigrant labor (H1B). All the former illegal immigrant labor was driven out by this and all the Ford F150 gardener trucks vanished. Main thoroughfare streets turned into 'concrete' canyons.
The small dense downtown area was replaced by tall corporate buildings, at street level turned into a soulless modern glass architecture maze of wine boutiques, chi-chi $12.00 burger sit downs, shitty little chic foreign food restaurants where all the Indian execs would lunch. All soul was removed. Closest grocery if you lived near downtown now was Target. The entire former nice small-town downtown was turned into a horrible barren treeless street zone. Very unfriendly sidewalks with a sterile vibe.
In the process, they also destroyed ALL the former techie stores that once gave Silicon Valley its entrepreneurial spirit. Google bought and kicked out one of the great electronic surplus stores; a land developer bought another one and put them out of business to build a 40 acre monster from hell home zone with $2.2 million shitty townhouses. https://www.zillow.com/community/nuevo/13867174_plid/. The last ham radio store here was forced out by high rents. (All the Fry's stores are still open but empty with no product on shelves.) Now, no one builds electronic things as an individual, only as a serf in a corporation.
It has been the end of an era, the soul of the Valley is gone due to development. The Agenda 2030 people have made it impossible for another Jobs and Woz to get started here. And there are no or many fewer garages in which to make something.
What will happen here is that the techies and liberals in this zone will bond and the previous townspeople will not be in that group. We see this in city council meetings.
I could not stand it and have moved away.
Not all of it tribal yet, but I see parts of it being jammed into place locally to create techie 'slave' tribes of immigrants.
Five years ago I could see that a special development plan was being installed in my former residential Bay Area tech city. Affordable one or two story apartment buildings were being bought up and torn down and being replaced by expensive five story apartment buildings to house tech yuppies and immigrant labor (H1B). All the former illegal immigrant labor was driven out by this and all the Ford F150 gardener trucks vanished. Main thoroughfare streets turned into 'concrete' canyons.
The small dense downtown area was replaced by tall corporate buildings, at street level turned into a soulless modern glass architecture maze of wine boutiques, chi-chi $12.00 burger sit downs, shitty little chic foreign food restaurants where all the Indian execs would lunch. All soul was removed. Closest grocery if you lived near downtown now was Target. The entire former nice small-town downtown was turned into a horrible barren treeless street zone. Very unfriendly sidewalks with a sterile vibe.
In the process, they also destroyed ALL the former techie stores that once gave Silicon Valley its entrepreneurial spirit. Google bought and kicked out one of the great electronic surplus stores; a land developer bought another one and put them out of business to build a 40 acre monster from hell home zone with $2.1 million shitty townhouses. https://www.zillow.com/community/nuevo/13867174_plid/. The last ham radio store here was forced out by high rents. (All the Fry's stores are still open but empty with no product on shelves.) Now, no one builds electronic things as an individual, only as a serf in a corporation.
It has been the end of an era, the soul of the Valley is gone due to development. The Agenda 2030 people have made it impossible for another Jobs and Woz to get started here. And there are no or many fewer garages in which to make something.
What will happen here is that the techies and liberals in this zone will bond and the previous townspeople will not be in that group. We see this in city council meetings.
I could not stand it and have moved away.
Not all of it tribal yet, but I see parts of it being jammed into place locally to create techie 'slave' tribes of immigrants.
Five years ago I could see that a special development plan was being installed in my former residential Bay Area tech city. Affordable one or two story apartment buildings were being bought up and torn down and being replaced by expensive five story apartment buildings to house tech yuppies and immigrant labor (H1B). All the former illegal immigrant labor was driven out by this and all the Ford F150 gardener trucks vanished. Main thoroughfare streets turned into 'concrete' canyons.
The small dense downtown area was replaced by tall corporate buildings, at street level turned into a soulless modern glass architecture maze of wine boutiques, chi-chi $12.00 burger sit downs, shitty little chic foreign food restaurants where all the Indian execs would lunch. All soul was removed. Closest grocery if you lived near downtown now was Target. The entire former nice small-town downtown was turned into a horrible barren treeless street zone. Very unfriendly sidewalks with a sterile vibe.
In the process, they also destroyed ALL the former techie stores that once gave Silicon Valley its entrepreneurial spirit. Google bought and kicked out one of the great electronic surplus stores; a land developer bought another one and put them out of business to build a 40 acre monster from hell home zone with $2.1 million shitty townhouses. https://www.zillow.com/community/nuevo/13867174_plid/. The last ham radio store here was forced out by high rents. (All the Fry's stores are still open but empty with no product on shelves.) Now, no one builds electronic things as an individual, only as a serf in a corporation.
It has been the end of an era, the soul of the Valley is gone due to development. The Agenda 2030 people have made it impossible for another Jobs and Woz to get started here. And there are no or many fewer garages in which to make something.
I could not stand it and moved away.