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Re:San Francisco by rdouble on Sunday June 16, 2013 @06:15PM (#5890249)
There are actually a lot of kids, and people with average jobs in SF. They just aren't white so tech people don't notice them.

Regarding old people, retired people are actually the fastest growing demographic in the city.

Re:San Francisco by jweir on Sunday June 16, 2013 @09:15PM (#5890860)
Look at the census data for SF. There are far fewer children there than average in the US. I think the average is around 24% for under 18. In SF it is around 12%. Brooklyn, by comparison, is average.
Re:San Francisco by bifrost on Sunday June 16, 2013 @09:56PM (#5890985)
There really aren't. I live in one of the few "family" neighborhoods in this city and there are maybe 2-3 families with kids within blocks of here. Plenty of non-white people around here too. If you go out to the "burbs", everyone has kids...
Re:San Francisco by rdouble on Sunday June 16, 2013 @10:17PM (#5891037)
I guess I lived next to an elementary school so it seemed like there were a lot of kids. I know statistically it's low but I chalked this up to the large numbers of transient workers and singles. Amongst groups who seemed more rooted in the city (like, say Chinese people in the Richmond) it seemed like the number of kids was about the same as anywhere.
Re:San Francisco by _pius on Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:39PM (#5891301)
There are actually a lot of kids, and people with average jobs in SF. They just aren't white so tech people don't notice them.

This, 1000x this.

Re:San Francisco by davidw on Monday June 17, 2013 @04:30AM (#5892075)
> This, 1000x this.

Repeating a grammatical error 1000 times does not make it "more better".

If you look at actual statistics, they do seem to back up my impression: income in SF is not your typical bell curvish distribution you'd see in many other places. There are a lot of people making a lot of money, more at still quite a bit of money, and a small peak for those making very little money, and fewer in between:

http://www.city-data.com/income/income-San-Francisco-Califor...

Look at:

Distribution of median family income in 2009 (number of people)

Distribution of median household income in 2009 (number of people)

Re:San Francisco by _pius on Monday June 17, 2013 @10:37AM (#5893387)
Repeating a grammatical error 1000 times does not make it "more better".

Douché.

If you look at actual statistics, they do seem to back up my impression ....

You're either confused about my comment or making a completely non sequitur argument for the heck of it. The claim I agreed with was that there are actually a lot of (largely minority) kids and people with average jobs in SF.

That is true and can be shown so by inspection, at that.

There are plenty of kids and families who live in my neighborhood (I'm on the cusp of Union Square and the Tenderloin). If you take a ride on the T towards Bayview in the middle of the afternoon, you'll also see plenty of kids.

Are the public schools in San Francisco just empty, waiting for families to move in and send their kids there? Of course not. As for people with "average jobs," who do you think is serving you that latté, helping you at Macy's, or cleaning your office? They don't just ship all of those people in from Oakland.

That San Francisco has no children or working class is a preposterous idea, mostly advanced by those who fail to step outside of the high-rent parts of the city.

Re:San Francisco by collypops on Sunday June 16, 2013 @06:41PM (#5890358)
Retired people are the fastest growing demographic in every city. We're living longer.
Re:San Francisco by rdouble on Sunday June 16, 2013 @06:50PM (#5890389)
Yeah, but the article I read suggested that rich Californians from other parts of the state were choosing SF as a place to retire. (Whereas people actually from SF were leaving due to costs) I'll try to dig up the article if I can.