\nYour combined household income is $140,000 and you can\u2019t afford shoes for the kids\nYou think anything slower than DSL is barbaric, but can\u2019t get it in your neighborhood<\/p>\n
You know what DSL stands for<\/p>\n
You and your spouse almost come to blows deciding to hit Peet\u2019s or Starbucks<\/p>\n
You think that American food includes sushi, naan, pho, pesto and pad thai<\/p>\n
You met your neighbors once<\/p>\n
When asked about your commute you answer in time, not distance<\/p>\n
Even though you work 80 hours per week on a computer, for relaxation you read your email and peruse eBay<\/p>\n
You have worked at the same job for a year and people call you an \u2018old-timer\u2019<\/p>\n
The T\u2011shirts you value most were for products that never made it to market<\/p>\n
You can name four different programming languages and you are not a programmer<\/p>\n
You remember the names of the three closest cheap sushi joints, the location of all the Fry\u2019s in the area and which companies your friends work for that are going public in the next year, but don\u2019t know the name of the mayor<\/p>\n
Standing in line at Starbucks you wonder why the employees don\u2019t call a head hunter<\/p>\n
You work 6 miles from your home and spend two hours a day commuting and $40 a week on gas<\/p>\n
Winter is when your lawn grows too fast and summer is when it dies<\/p>\n
The median price of a house is $500,000\u2026for 1200 sq. ft. with no yard because it\u2019s a town house<\/p>\n
You live on some of the richest farm land in the world but most of what you eat comes from South America on a boat<\/p>\n
Your best friend lives across town but you hardly ever see each other because after your commute you\u2019re too pooped to spend another hour driving to their home<\/p>\n
You have a master\u2019s degree in engineering but half the people in your department either didn\u2019t go to college or have history degrees, except if you have a master\u2019s from Stanford, in which case everyone in your department has a master\u2019s degree from Stanford<\/p>\n
You cringe when you see people in suits at your office, wondering if someone in management will make you stop wearing bunny slippers<\/p>\n
You plan your vacation so that you don\u2019t have to drive back from the airport in commute hours<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t go to sporting events unless you are given tickets by your employer<\/p>\n
You could sell your home and live like a king in 99% of the rest of the world, but don\u2019t because it would be difficult to move back. <\/p>\n
You have at least three computers at home.<\/p>\n
You own at least one domain on the Internet, probably several.<\/p>\n
You think it\u2019s normal to see chip-design software or relational databases advertised on freeway billboards.<\/p>\n
You know that California isn\u2019t just one big beach.<\/p>\n
You know that not everyone in California surfs.<\/p>\n
You know there\u2019s lots of skiing in California.<\/p>\n
You know your rotating outage block number at home and at work, and listen for them whenever there are rolling blackouts.<\/p>\n
If someone refers to \u201cSunnytogaDeAnzavale Road\u201d, you laugh and know what they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n
You take your out-of-town friends to see the techie gadgets at Fry\u2019s. But you don\u2019t let them buy anything.<\/p>\n
You know how to recognize re-sealed returned electronics at Fry\u2019s.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t ask the staff any questions at Fry\u2019s. You know they hire idiots and pass the savings on to you.<\/p>\n
You watch dot-com boomers go back to the states they came from, and the traffic gets better by the month. But you are home so you\u2019re not moving.<\/p>\n
You own a Sport Utility Vehicle and have never taken it off-road. You wouldn\u2019t know what to do if you tried. Same with all your friends.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t know how to drive in snow. You\u2019re a road hazard when you visit the mountains.<\/p>\n
You think bicycles don\u2019t belong on the road.<\/p>\n
You think any car ahead of you doesn\u2019t belong on the road.<\/p>\n
Your out-of-state friends are impressed at how much money you make\u2026 until you tell them how much you pay for housing.<\/p>\n
You know that a \u201cfixer-upper\u201d home could cost a half-million dollars.<\/p>\n
You do a \u201cCalifornia stop\u201d at stop signs. And you think it\u2019s only Californians who call them that.<\/p>\n
You aren\u2019t bothered much by earthquakes because you\u2019re ready for them. But the thought of tornadoes and hurricanes terrifies you.<\/p>\n
You clearly remember where you were when the Loma Prieta quake hit.<\/p>\n
You know several funny stories about swimming pools in the quake.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t recognize a thunderstorm without seeing lightning first.<\/p>\n
You cringe when a Southern Californian refers to highways like \u201cthe 101\u201d. It\u2019s just \u201c101\u201d. No \u201cthe\u201d.<\/p>\n
You call low clouds \u201cfog\u201d even if they\u2019re hundreds of feet off the ground.<\/p>\n
At least once you have gone to San Francisco for the day wearing shorts and a t\u2011shirt because it was a warm clear day in San Jose. And you froze your little *@#!% off in the fog, drizzle and wind.<\/p>\n
You say you\u2019re from Silicon Valley because no one knows where San Jose is. <\/p>\n
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Silicon Valley.
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