I don’t think the article is supposed to be a description of every small class of people in the Bay Area. I think it is merely to give an impression of the inner lives of some different people in roughly the same place. Certainly I didn’t read it as “here are representatives of the three sets which partition the population of the Bay Area” so much as “here is what the Bay Area means to three different stereotypes of people I’ve met”
Sure, but as a first generation tech immigrant, it made me feel transparent and ignored, since living in the south bay it feels like we are the majority or at least the single largest group.
EDIT: Also, the title is The Three Bay Areas, not "A Tale of Three Bay Areas" or alike.
This was my take away as well, esp since the article uses "The" in the title, which connotates completeness of the coverage.
To a certain type of person living here (possibly exclusively spending time in SF proper?), first generation immigrants are invisible or "don't count".
Please don’t obsess about this, especially online. You play into the stereotype of the Bay Area as some latter-day 19th Century Boston, which was described in that era as "applying first principles to trifles". Forget it, kid, it’s Chinatown. Or not.
Sure, but there are 8+ million people in the Bay Area, so a short piece about three types of people is never going to cover everyone. I'm a Bay Area native, and none of these profiles are anywhere close to describing me.
I also live in the South Bay, and "first generation tech immigrants" are definitely not a majority, though that certainly does describe a lot of people. While tech companies are most of the largest employers, employment in retail, health care, education, hospitality and local government are still significant portions of the working base.
There are loads of different kinds of people in the Bay Area who aren't on that list. The title vaguely suggests it's a complete census, and indeed it isn't, but as long as you read it as three hopefully interesting sketches of some people you might meet, perhaps it's not too bad.
