\nYour com\u00adbined house\u00adhold income is $140,000 and you can\u2019t afford shoes for the kids\nYou think any\u00adthing slow\u00ader than DSL is bar\u00adbar\u00adic, but can\u2019t get it in your neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood<\/p>\n
You know what DSL stands for<\/p>\n
You and your spouse almost come to blows decid\u00ading to hit Peet\u2019s or Star\u00adbucks<\/p>\n
You think that Amer\u00adi\u00adcan food includes sushi, naan, pho, pesto and pad thai<\/p>\n
You met your neigh\u00adbors once<\/p>\n
When asked about your com\u00admute you answer in time, not dis\u00adtance<\/p>\n
Even though you work 80 hours per week on a com\u00adput\u00ader, for relax\u00adation you read your email and peruse eBay<\/p>\n
You have worked at the same job for a year and peo\u00adple call you an \u2018old-timer\u2019<\/p>\n
The T\u2011shirts you val\u00adue most were for prod\u00aducts that nev\u00ader made it to mar\u00adket<\/p>\n
You can name four dif\u00adfer\u00adent pro\u00adgram\u00adming lan\u00adguages and you are not a pro\u00adgram\u00admer<\/p>\n
You remem\u00adber the names of the three clos\u00adest cheap sushi joints, the loca\u00adtion of all the Fry\u2019s in the area and which com\u00adpa\u00adnies your friends work for that are going pub\u00adlic in the next year, but don\u2019t know the name of the may\u00ador<\/p>\n
Stand\u00ading in line at Star\u00adbucks you won\u00adder why the employ\u00adees don\u2019t call a head hunter<\/p>\n
You work 6 miles from your home and spend two hours a day com\u00admut\u00ading and $40 a week on gas<\/p>\n
Win\u00adter is when your lawn grows too fast and sum\u00admer is when it dies<\/p>\n
The medi\u00adan 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 rich\u00adest farm land in the world but most of what you eat comes from South Amer\u00adi\u00adca on a boat<\/p>\n
Your best friend lives across town but you hard\u00adly ever see each oth\u00ader because after your com\u00admute you\u2019re too pooped to spend anoth\u00ader hour dri\u00adving to their home<\/p>\n
You have a mas\u00adter\u2019s degree in engi\u00adneer\u00ading but half the peo\u00adple in your depart\u00adment either did\u00adn\u2019t go to col\u00adlege or have his\u00adto\u00adry degrees, except if you have a mas\u00adter\u2019s from Stan\u00adford, in which case every\u00adone in your depart\u00adment has a mas\u00adter\u2019s degree from Stan\u00adford<\/p>\n
You cringe when you see peo\u00adple in suits at your office, won\u00adder\u00ading if some\u00adone in man\u00adage\u00adment will make you stop wear\u00ading bun\u00adny slip\u00adpers<\/p>\n
You plan your vaca\u00adtion so that you don\u2019t have to dri\u00adve back from the air\u00adport in com\u00admute hours<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t go to sport\u00ading events unless you are giv\u00aden tick\u00adets by your employ\u00ader<\/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 dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to move back. <\/p>\n
You have at least three com\u00adput\u00aders at home.<\/p>\n
You own at least one domain on the Inter\u00adnet, prob\u00ada\u00adbly sev\u00ader\u00adal.<\/p>\n
You think it\u2019s nor\u00admal to see chip-design soft\u00adware or rela\u00adtion\u00adal data\u00adbas\u00ades adver\u00adtised on free\u00adway bill\u00adboards.<\/p>\n
You know that Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia isn\u2019t just one big beach.<\/p>\n
You know that not every\u00adone in Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia surfs.<\/p>\n
You know there\u2019s lots of ski\u00ading in Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia.<\/p>\n
You know your rotat\u00ading out\u00adage block num\u00adber at home and at work, and lis\u00adten for them when\u00adev\u00ader there are rolling black\u00adouts.<\/p>\n
If some\u00adone refers to \u201cSun\u00adny\u00adto\u00adgaDeAn\u00adzavale Road\u201d, you laugh and know what they\u2019re talk\u00ading about.<\/p>\n
You take your out-of-town friends to see the techie gad\u00adgets at Fry\u2019s. But you don\u2019t let them buy any\u00adthing.<\/p>\n
You know how to rec\u00adog\u00adnize re-sealed returned elec\u00adtron\u00adics at Fry\u2019s.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t ask the staff any ques\u00adtions at Fry\u2019s. You know they hire idiots and pass the sav\u00adings on to you.<\/p>\n
You watch dot-com boomers go back to the states they came from, and the traf\u00adfic gets bet\u00adter by the month. But you are home so you\u2019re not mov\u00ading.<\/p>\n
You own a Sport Util\u00adi\u00adty Vehi\u00adcle and have nev\u00ader tak\u00aden it off-road. You would\u00adn\u2019t know what to do if you tried. Same with all your friends.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t know how to dri\u00adve in snow. You\u2019re a road haz\u00adard when you vis\u00adit the moun\u00adtains.<\/p>\n
You think bicy\u00adcles don\u2019t belong on the road.<\/p>\n
You think any car ahead of you does\u00adn\u2019t belong on the road.<\/p>\n
Your out-of-state friends are impressed at how much mon\u00adey you make\u2026 until you tell them how much you pay for hous\u00ading.<\/p>\n
You know that a \u201cfix\u00ader-upper\u201d home could cost a half-mil\u00adlion dol\u00adlars.<\/p>\n
You do a \u201cCal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia stop\u201d at stop signs. And you think it\u2019s only Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adni\u00adans who call them that.<\/p>\n
You aren\u2019t both\u00adered much by earth\u00adquakes because you\u2019re ready for them. But the thought of tor\u00adna\u00addoes and hur\u00adri\u00adcanes ter\u00adri\u00adfies you.<\/p>\n
You clear\u00adly remem\u00adber where you were when the Loma Pri\u00adeta quake hit.<\/p>\n
You know sev\u00ader\u00adal fun\u00adny sto\u00adries about swim\u00adming pools in the quake.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t rec\u00adog\u00adnize a thun\u00adder\u00adstorm with\u00adout see\u00ading light\u00adning first.<\/p>\n
You cringe when a South\u00adern Cal\u00adi\u00adforn\u00adian refers to high\u00adways like \u201cthe 101\u201d. It\u2019s just \u201c101\u201d. No \u201cthe\u201d.<\/p>\n
You call low clouds \u201cfog\u201d even if they\u2019re hun\u00addreds of feet off the ground.<\/p>\n
At least once you have gone to San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco for the day wear\u00ading shorts and a t\u2011shirt because it was a warm clear day in San Jose. And you froze your lit\u00adtle *@#!% off in the fog, driz\u00adzle and wind.<\/p>\n
You say you\u2019re from Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley because no one knows where San Jose is. <\/p>\n
You actu\u00adal\u00adly get these jokes and pass them on to oth\u00ader friends from Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley.
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