[gruglife]

Completely agree with you. I grew up in the East Bay and to say much of the East Bay is extremely poor is rediculous. Sure Oakland and Richmond are struggling but there are numerous cities that are not (Walnut Creek, Orinda, Danville, Pleasanton, etc).

[ryandrake]

The whole article sounded like "Oh, my god, you don't have a brand new Tesla parked in the driveway of your beautiful single-family home in the middle of Palo Alto? I'm so sorry for how poor you are!! No high end bookstores and artisanal coffee shops? My word, how dreadful!" In reality, most of the places he described as "red zone" are far, far better than a great deal of the rest of the country. Go visit some run-down Rust Belt cities and tell me you still think San Jose is dilapidated.

[solotronics]

Most of the country is not a part of the absolute boom and resulting cornucopia of wealth that tech is experiencing. When you go out to the smaller cities and away from the high powered tech areas you really do see the massive disparity of opportunity that exists currently. You aren't seeing a bad area you are seeing the normal state of most of the country and I know personally I have become accustomed to my environment so I really do feel upset or sad seeing areas where people just plain do not have access to the same things we do. Not sure how to fix it, if you look at it from a financial perspective if you take the majority of the wealth from the upper middle and upper class and distribute it wouldn't make any difference.