[sangoo]

...It has morphed from a lower-middle class white trash community (mostly law abiding) to another 3rd world cesspool.

I don't think most of the Valley was ever "lower-middle class white trash", but you're right about it being a 3rd world cesspool now.

[doorgunner69]

I don't think most of the Valley was ever "lower-middle class white trash"

The SF Valley was originally settled by Oklahoma dust bowl refugees, which popular lore has pretty much labled as that. The expensive areas came much later around the periphery of the valley.