The latest boom in Silicon Valley has brought with it massive traffic jams, stratospheric housing costs and resentful blowback. Some now use the word "techie" as a pejorative in the San Francisco Bay Area, referring to someone presumably young, male, affluent and out-of-touch with his community. Like any stereotype, there are those who fit the bill, and a lot of people who don't.
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