THE MISERABLE LIFE IN WOKE SILICON VALLEY (Very Long)

PowerlineBlog.com ^ | 1-14-2022 | STEVEN HAYWARD

[servo1969]

These "employees" live like spoiled royalty in their own private little hells.

[Wilhelm Tell]

They get paid a lot of money for doing virtually no work, if they fit in with one of the P.O.C. or LGBTQWERTY categories they are worshipped, and they moan about how “oppressed” they are.

[caseinpoint]

I can see younger workers affected like this. Silicon Valley is incredibly expensive in terms of housing and it is not unusual to have little more than a studio apartment or roommates. If their whole social lives are tied up in work and extracurricular activities which are now forbidden, it would really impact their quality of life.

My husband works in Silicon Valley (and works from home four days each week) but we live some fifty miles from the office and have a quiet, large house to bang around in. It would be much, much harder were we cramped into a tiny apartment with noisy neighbors and limited social outlets.

[BradyLS]

Hope they’re saving their money. They’re gonna need it when the gravy train reaches the end of the line.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Remember, a lot of the foreigner H1-Bs are really nothing more than serving an indentured servitude employment. One screw up, dissatisfaction, or challenge to authority and the visa is gone and they’re on their way home.

[martin_fierro]

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In my experience, people in my former little corner of Santa Cruz County were miserable -- but to a person all failed to correctly attribute that misery to its correct source.

"Oh, it's the long commutes/high taxes/heavy regulation/lousy education/high cost of living," they'd all say -- but would then they'd uniformly fail to complete the analysis: THAT CALIFORNIA IS, AND WILL FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE BE, A ONE-PARTY STATE.

Wifey & I got some envious side-eyes from the neighbors when it became apparent we were pulling up stakes and bailing on CA.

[lizma2]

My son is a PhD in A.I. and moved to Silicon Valley 2 years ago. He think it sucks.

[Kevmo]

Where are you headed? I’m weighing my options.

[9YearLurker]

Dude’s got something weird against pets and cats especially, and of course lots of tech workers are single: they are young, career-driven professionals.

But otherwise it all rings true and does sound pretty awful.

[whinecountry]

You are right on, Martin. My leftist neighbors are complaining about their heating and gasoline bills with nary a thought that this is what they voted for.

[martin_fierro]

We looked allllll across the South: NC, SC, GA, FL, TX, AR, AL, MS -— and ended up in central AR, having found a great house deal there.

Granted, you’re not going to get that great CA weather here — summers are incredibly hot & humid here — but overall I’d say the gestalt here is much happier than CA.

[Kevmo]

I got my eye on Northeastern AR. I suppose I could expand that to central AR.

[martin_fierro]

We looked there and the housing market was ON FIRE — SEVEN TIMES before we could even get to look at a house, it was either already under contract or had several bids.

It also seems that strip from Spingdale, up through Bentonville, to Bella Vista is the “Austin” area of AR, and all that entails. So keep that in mind.

[martin_fierro]

Correction: Bentonville, etc. in in NW AR, sorry. I don’t know about NE AR.

[Monkey Face]

My next-to-the-last nephew in California bailed out three years ago. Not sure what the one remaining will do, but I do know he doesn’t have near the disposable income that the other nephew does.

I feel bad for any conservative who has to stay there.

‘Face

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[AZJeep]

It seems everybody is demoralized, everywhere.
I do not know Silicon Valley, but all the younger people, who are working, are demoralized, unhappy and trying to quit!
Maybe, the working from home, is not that great idea, after all.

[Political Junkie Too]

So, basically introverts whose only social network was at work. Take away the office and lockdown these people at home, and they are isolated away from all real human contact.

-PJ

[Huskrrrr]

Retired to NorCal two years ago, after spending 20 years in Silicon Valley. Don’t miss it, not for a minute.

[Dr. Sivana]

Correction: Bentonville, etc. in in NW AR, sorry. I don’t know about NE AR.

I know a couple who were just out that way, and they found it jarring that so many people for Walmart corporate that don't fit into the Arkansas culture have moved there.

I know that's not you, but let's hope they don't gain critical mass.

I lived in Columbus, GA for four years, and though originally a Connecticut Yankee, I fit in just fine. It really is the attitude, and there are lots of great things about the Deep South. Race relations were MUCH better.

[Kevmo]

Where in NorCal? It’s still on my list. Lifelong Californian, born & raised in SFBay area.