This is one reason I haven’t wanted to live in Berkeley. Whenever I visited (which was very frequently at one point) it was pretty exhausting to have so many people running around trying to figure out and chase which things were “cool” (far from everyone in Berkeley was like this, but too many seemed to be).
Outside Berkeley I notice it much less. I still interact frequently online with a lot of people who live in Berkeley, and for me this is much more pleasant. It’s a shame, because there are lots of benefits of talking to people in person. But for me they don’t seem worth the costs.
This is one reason I haven’t wanted to live in Berkeley. Whenever I visited (which was very frequently at one point) it was pretty exhausting to have so many people running around trying to figure out and chase which things were “cool” (far from everyone in Berkeley was like this, but too many seemed to be).
Outside Berkeley I notice it much less. I still interact frequently online with a lot of people who live in Berkeley, and for me this is much more pleasant. It’s a shame, because there are lots of benefits of talking to people in person. But for me they don’t seem worth the costs.