By the way, what are the peninsula stereotypes? I know a few people in redwood but it seems mostly like the same stereotypes, but I really dont know that much about the area.
Well, there are the rich Asians moving south from SF for better weather (the fog belt ends right where property values pick up in Millbrae). Then there are the rich whites moving north to Palo Alto to escape the sprawl of San Jose/Sunnyvale/Mountain View. Said sprawl is mostly vanilla suburban, middle-class families who work in corporate tech. Also new transplants filling in cheaper apartments, as I once was, not cool enough or paid enough to live in SF. Then you have the hard-working and long-time Latino communities getting squeezed in the middle (Redwood City and San Mateo) or pushed into the fog belt (Daly City). There is a bit of the social angst and class-conflict mentioned in the original article, but nowhere near as much--I found the south bay and the peninsula to be much more down-to-earth.
