Oh, oh how quickly times do change:

"...the young creative elite of San Fransico are here and only here, do not want to be elsewhere, because technology-wise, New York is ten or twelve years behind -- you can't even email anyone there yet -- and style-wise L.A. is so '80s, because here, in stark contrast, there is no money, no one is allowed to make money, or spend money, or look like you've spent money, money is suspect, the making of money and caring about money -- at least insofar as having more than, say, $17,000 a year -- is archaic, is high school, is completely beside the point."

-Dave Eggers (in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) on the SOMA/South Park area of San Francisco (in 1993 or so?)