Bay Area Jobs And The Economy

[krudmonk]

Just more unnecessary 4-0-Hate...

[kurklk]

Damn San Franciscans with your liberal ideas about Arts!!! My XZp100 PDA spits on your million dollar art work!!!

Haha Just kidding.

[gladisimo]

Interesting that in the map, the north bay is part of the silicon valley too! And the coast!

[gladisimo]

Originally Posted by sjdowntownguy

HAHA.. seems like this was written by people in SF. Silicon Valley starts at menlo park continuing south to south San Jose and over to to the East, Fremont is the starts of silicon valley.. The first map where it has blue for everything in the bay area is not correct at all..

Traditionally, that is the boundary, but people have moved it as far North as redwood city now, and there's a sense of the "New Silicon Valley" with loads of biotech firms now opening all around the Bay Area.

So I guess it depends on what they define it as.

[Silicon Francisco]

How dare those commoners doubt the accuracy of my OFFICIAL map.
In the context of tech companies in the Bay Area as seen by outsiders, even SF and Oakland could be considered part of the "Silicon Valley". Interestingly, some longer-term residents might take issue with this!

[metropolismayor]

No, SF and Oakland are NOT Silicon Valley. I hope you're joking...

bay_area got it right. Silicon Valley consists of all of Santa Clara county and the southern portions of Alameda and San Mateo counties. Sure there is high tech in other parts of the Bay Area, but they are not SV proper. The Silicon Valley is a unique portion of the region.

If there is national confusion about exactly where SV is, its because its as much a mythical place as a specific region. (The same could be said of another powerful California center, Hollywood.) That said, it does have specific parameters. In addition, everyone, including those outside Silicon Valley in the Bay Area, want a piece of the pie. Thats why Mayor Willie Brown of SF used to talk about SV as if it ran down the Embarcadero. Pathetic...

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by metropolismayor

In addition, everyone, including those outside Silicon Valley in the Bay Area, want a piece of the pie. Thats why Mayor Willie Brown of SF used to talk about SV as if it ran down the Embarcadero. Pathetic...

Eh, what's new about San Franciscans mistakenly thinking of the entire Bay Area as a suburb of their city?

[lugueron]

Originally Posted by krudmonk

Eh, what's new about San Franciscans mistakenly thinking of the entire Bay Area as a suburb of their city?

The entire Bay Area has always been a suburb of San Francisco. Get use to it.

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by lugueron

The entire Bay Area has always been a suburb of San Francisco. Get use to it.

Would you care to explain your reasoning?

[metropolismayor]

Originally Posted by lugueron

The entire Bay Area has always been a suburb of San Francisco. Get use to it.

Yes, please do.

[*NOR CAL*]

haha, yes, Menlo Park right here.

Thats where I stay =)

[gladisimo]

Originally Posted by lugueron

The entire Bay Area has always been a suburb of San Francisco. Get use to it.

It might have been that way when it started out, but each pole of the tripolar Bay Area have developed their own niche, and it can hardly be said that the entire bay area is a suburb of SF, especially considering that, by definition itself, SJ and Oakland are hardly "suburban"

[metropolismayor]

Originally Posted by gladisimo

It might have been that way when it started out, but each pole of the tripolar Bay Area have developed their own niche, and it can hardly be said that the entire bay area is a suburb of SF, especially considering that, by definition itself, SJ and Oakland are hardly "suburban"

Yes! Gladismo, may I but you a drink? Cheers!

[krudmonk]

To be more precise, it did not start that way but was the case for a long time. After all, San Jose is older*!

*obligatory SJ boosterism

[OettingerCroat]

Originally Posted by Silicon Francisco

In case you were confused about which part of the Bay Area is associated with Silicon Valley (I'm sure many of us are) here's a handy map:

Pink = San Francisco
Yellow = Oakland
Blue = Silicon Valley

retarded.

[JoshuaSantos]

Originally Posted by Silicon Francisco

nice map, but even my map doesn't show the whole picture.

here's a classic style

Well at least the central focus here is the golden triangle area (the area on the map bound by 101, 273, and 880). On the map it looks huge, but really its a very small area with more IT companies and IT infrastructure clustered together than anywhere else (by far, 3x margin). Most of the key semiconductor companies on the planet are headquartered there.

[JoshuaSantos]

Originally Posted by OettingerCroat

retarded.

The thing that's retarded are people wasting space on this server making meaningless one word comments without any logic or reasoning behind them.

[Skyman]

Cool map

[OettingerCroat]

Originally Posted by JoshuaSantos

The thing that's retarded are people wasting space on this server making meaningless one word comments without any logic or reasoning behind them.

my one word comment wastes a whole lot less bandwith than these fanatical, complex-driven pictures...

[Silicon Francisco]

You need a faster internet connection and some common sense.