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Coming in at a respectable number two, Forbes Magazine named San Francisco the second best spot to park your yuppie ass. As if you didn’t already know that. (Although we’re puzzled at the hair-pulling about this reality by many in SF; liberal/progressive and yuppie lifestyles are not mutually exclusive. Not by the longest shot.)
Forbes based their survey on factors such as “tracking where graduates from top universities relocated to after colleges…locations of the top companies according to its rankings, the starting salaries for new professionals, the cost of living, and the number of never-married singles in the area.” (i.e., the gays! Even if you‘re a twink hitting the pipe while selling your sweet tail in a residential hotel, you too might be a card-carrying yuppie!)
Oh, and New York City came in at a gritty, abrupt, showtune-singing number one. (Whatever, our rose consumption is simply second to none.)
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Remember, the article isn't about best places for "yuppies" but rather "young professionals". The former term is more of a lifestyle/mindset classification (with that loaded Trixie/Chad connotation that always seems to get SF's Mission hipster crowd all riled up.) But the latter is just a demographic term for recent college grads working white-collar jobs.
Guest #1, I believe it is for such situations that the phrase "a distinction without a difference" was coined.
All implications point to certain residents wanting to maintain a tragic status quo.
"Progressive? Must be jobless! Bums! Probably don't pay taxes, like me, a good citizen... and I have to pay for them to live in my city! Isn't that what progressive means: freeloader, complainer?
Oh wait. They have jobs... and pay taxes. Well that just makes my argument moot! So I have to come up with something new. Got it! I'm going to blame any financial success they might have on a trust fund. Or better yet, I'm going to dispute their progressive values altogether. You can't be progressive if you can afford to live in SF!"
Visit San Francisco!
See the yuppies where they live and play.
Watch them drive their SUVs at 50MPH on city streets!
Chuckle as they fight for a place in line at Starbucks!
Sigh with envy when you see them in their Gucci flip-flops!
Enter a special drawing for an iphone! Free classes to the winner so you too can learn to blah blah blah in the right annoying tone and volume [especially in public]!
Grrg: "A disinction without a difference" said the drunk Dalek climbing off the trash can.
(I'm alluding to the fact that to an innebriated Dalek, a trash can looks like a very attractive mate). Now that sir, is humor (to me, and dorks who like Dr. Who).
Oh yeah, and yuppies suck, though as I hate drum circles, that probably makes me one. Actually I am a total yuppie, except I'm not young, can I still be in the club, please? I like performance-orientated activity vehicles. And cheeses. But I don't talk too loud in bars I have never been to before. Or have a fixie and tight black pants, for though we dare not say it, Johnny vintage Def Leopard shirt is the new yuppie. Please, Def Leopard suck, have always sucked in their ugly, talentless, Yorkshire sheepshagging way.
If you're commenting on a web site, you too are a yuppie. Even if you think you're some sort of progressive, you're just a poseur. Truly unfortunate people are not reading sfist, and are simply left wing yuppies.
Of course, if you *are* commenting on a web site, and you begrudge people for making more money than you, than you're just a jealous, sore loser.
Let's just shorten that to "loser".
Yup. All riled up. I rest my case.
Sure, it's easy to pigeon-hole people you don't relate to into a strict definition that you're going to ultimately amount of "loser", but progressives are not the "truly unfortunate", just activists who try to make a difference in more than just their own lives.