Please don't take HN threads further into regional flamewar, regardless of which region you have a problem with. It's tedious, offtopic, hellish, and particularly avoidable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>and the rest of the country is a dump pile

Which is especially ironic, considered how much of a shithole San Francisco has become

This is getting old. I've lived in the Bay Area for 20+ years and guess what, the Bay Area != San Francisco (I personally go to SF less than once every two years).

Indeed how? If they really mean SF, then write that. Bay Area is much greater and much more than SF. San Jose alone is larger in area and people than SF and Bay Area is much much more than San Jose.

I'm trying to spread awareness to people not from here that the two things aren't the same at all. It's bad enough that media convulsively regurgitate the same tired fallacy repeatedly.

Perhaps if you consider that when people speak of the Bay Area, this is sometimes an example of metonymy (or even in another sense, synedoche), you wouldn't feel the need raise everyone's awareness of San Jose.

“Cultural hub” is a term for “shows up in movies”. It’s completely irrelevant if you live in the South Bay.

Well, it's not like the South Bay has culture.

Relevant video response/blast from the past (there is also a 2015 sequel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlTvSUCCqPo

…that you like.

As far as I can tell, every part of the country dumps on every other part of the country. Sometimes including other parts of their own state.

Been a few years since I heard anyone claim the bay area or SF was really great.

We had our time. It was great. Now a new era starts.

The whinging hits everyone. Look at any HN story involving the Bay Area, and you'll see a dozen subthreads about how it's a post-apocalyptic hellscape. (But it's home, you know.)

Speaking as an elitist left-wing hippie-business-geek-bro-demon in the Bay Area...

Kudos to the Columbus Area! Ohio, build it up!