Dot-Commers Go Home!

The dot-com backlash in San Francisco has gotten to the point where apartment-hunters indicate that they don't want to live with dot-commers.

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August 28, 2000, 8:45 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

Finding housing in the San Francisco Bay Area is bad enough. But for those who work for dot coms, the animosity is becoming palpable: As the nouveau riche moves in to the crowded city, the older middle class is being forced out. The Mission District, long a center of the city's entrenched, vibrant Hispanic population, is in the midst of a battle between the old and the new, and the new has been winning.

Thanks to Chris Steins

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Sunday, August 27, 2000 in Wired

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