I was quoted in this story. The author and I talked a long time — he only ended up directly quoting this — but I’m glad he used this brutal truth wrapped in a joke:

“That’s how bad it’s gotten [in the Bay Area],” he says. “All the artists have been driven out, so maybe all these people in coding, they’re artists. That’s how desperate we are for culture.”

If that grabs ya, read the rest.