Hey. #notallhoustonians. People from Houston are actually really nice. I don’t think Ted Cruz is a houstonian. That’s a weird word. “Houstonian.” I kept writing it as “houst+onions” which made no sense. Anyway, we’re nice I promise! (born there : )

I’ve lived in Oakland for seven and I’m just like WHAT NOW? I was part of the first wave of gentrifiers here (broke for years but white), but at this point I’m part of the angry mob like - you moved here and bought WHAT apartment and I’ve had to move HOW many times because my homes have been flipped for wealthier…

My ex works as an engineer in a startup in SF and NO EFFING joke his best friend at the startup once told me and a bunch of my friends - mostly hippies (see: nonprofit workers, medical employees, etc.) on the other, more politically-conscious side of the bay (Oakland/Berkeley)- that tech workers are treated like the…

I live in Oakland but I work in tech. #Notalltechies (I enjoy the company of the vast majority of my smart/funny/nerdy coworkers), but it’s true that a loud minority of these people are AW.FUL (not, not all - otherwise I wouldn’t work in tech - but many) and everyone this side of the bay almost universally LOATHES all…

They get by because they are only surrounded by people of similar ilk (spoken as someone who lives in the area and has dated in that group, but is not “of” it.) It’s a spiritually vacuous group.