I've lived in SF for more than 10 years which is longer than I've lived anywhere ever. It is now my home and when people ask I say "I didn't grow up there but I'm from SF." I'm a "tech worker". It took 6 years before I could really afford my own apartment (no roommates). Even though I have what would now be considered a good job I still have to bounce between North Bay, SF, and South Bay at least once or twice a week usually for at least one overnight. Sometimes I travel outside of the Bay Area for a couple of nights. I sold my car and lane split on a motorcycle to make my travels around the Bay Area as workable as possible (public transit won't get me a lot of the places I need to go and certainly not in a timeframe that works out). When I buy groceries and cook I often have to throw things away because by the time I've returned the fresh vegetables and left-overs have gone bad. I volunteered at Hayes Valley Farm and started a handful of hobbie clubs in this city over the years. I have local musician friends who I support by going to their shows. Sometimes I will even buy art from local artists although my interests lean mostly toward non-artsy things.
I use the following services:
because when I do the time+money analysis on the service they provide it costs less to use them than to not use them.
People who hate on these services and the people who use them because they are perceived as "for rich techies only", and god forbid, white male techies, are racist, classist, irrational fuckheads and after hearing it over and over for the last several years it is wearing s supremely thin. Most of the people complaining the loudest are bullshit cookie-cutter hipsters with nothing to contribute, despite what they thing, to either the art scene or the economy in large and who have lived here for less than 5 years or 20 year residents who rode real estate appreciation into a position where they don't even have to make an effort to stay here and they get to spend all of their time grousing.
For everyone who harbors this blanket hatred for all things "tech" and particular for your white male techie demographic bogeyman know that as soon as you out yourself as one of those people I feel pretty much the same about you, asshole.
For the rest of you, be good to each other.