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Why just Silicon Valley and not the whole SF Bay Area?

edit: Actually, now I look at your wiki it seems to be focused on the whole Bay Area while just claiming to be about the valley. This is wrong: San Francisco isn't part of SV and certainly the East Bay isn't either. (San Jose is debatable.) Now, while most of the early errors made in a wiki will get corrected eventually, giving it the wrong name is an uncorrectable error, so I'd recommend changing the name before you do anything else.




I completely agree with you that geographically speaking, silicon valley is considered a sub-region of the greater bay area, but it's also kind of an entity or state of mind that goes beyond its borders. For instance, if someone in LA wrote a wiki about "moving to hollywood", we wouldn't expect it to be geographically limited to hollywood. Personally, I don't think the title is all that bad.


"San Jose is debatable."

San Jose's motto/tagline is "Capital of Silicon Valley" (http://www.sanjoseca.gov/).

from wiki:

"Geographically, the Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley including the city of San Jose (and adjacent communities), the southern Peninsula, and the southern East Bay."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley


I definitely agree -- the "Silicon Valley" has expanded in meaning from the Santa Clara Valley to the whole Bay Area anyway.

I've always wanted to write up a "so you just moved to the Bay Area; everything you know about living here is probably wrong" post, and I may just contribute to the wiki instead.

San Jose is debatable

Huh? Isn't San Jose in the Santa Clara Valley?


"Geographically, the Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley including the city of San Jose (and adjacent communities), the southern Peninsula, and the southern East Bay." - Wikipedia.

I hope this resource fills out. I work at the YMCA in Palo Alto and I meet a lot of people as they move in to the area. I will have to introduce them to this wiki.


I disagree. Find me one person who lives in the bay area, working in tech, that doesnt believe they are in silicon valley. Including SF and the shores of the east bay.

Especially considering much of silicon valley's manufacturing history is on the east side of the bay south of Oakland to San Jose.

To say that San Jose is not a part of Silicon Valley is ridiculous.


I think Silicon Valley has both broad and narrow meanings. The broad meaning mostly applies when mass-market magazines or people from the East Coast are speaking. But from where I sit in SF, the Valley is that area down south where the big boys have their big campuses, and all that.

Of course, when I go home to Mississippi and folks say I'm living in or otherwise associated with Silicon Valley, I don't correct them. Close enough that it's not worth being a smartass.




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