Because they have roots and history in SF and the valley. They've got friends, family, and memories there. It's hard to give up your home.
It's those tech upstarts that're causing all the trouble; Moving there en-masse, with their strange ways and disrespect for the local culture. Always trying to "disrupt"; they're obviously troublemakers!
Really, it's no different from casual racism, but you've got to understand the roots: Fear of the unknown is a powerful motivating factor for most people.
>with their strange ways and disrespect for the local culture. Always trying to "disrupt"; they're obviously troublemakers!
This is a straw man. It's the "tech upstarts" money and their willingness to spend it like water that's disruptive, and not because it makes them "troublemakers" but because it makes local rents rise to multiples of what they were before. It's very much different than casual racism.
edit: it's very silly and reality TV drama to think of this as a personality conflict. It's a rent going from $2K to $5K in 5 years conflict.
It's those tech upstarts that're causing all the trouble; Moving there en-masse, with their strange ways and disrespect for the local culture. Always trying to "disrupt"; they're obviously troublemakers!
Really, it's no different from casual racism, but you've got to understand the roots: Fear of the unknown is a powerful motivating factor for most people.