Map of The Real Bay Area confirmed by SF Chronicle
Recently, the SF Chronicle posted this map:
Zillow maps ups and downs of housing prices
The Bay Area is known for its microclimates. That’s as true for the real estate market as for weather patterns.
Hm… doesn’t that look familiar… kind of like the map I published nearly two months ago?
Figures it would take the Main Street Media (MSM) so long to get right what bloggers knew all along: that there is a Real Bay Area, and a Not Real Bay Area.
Well… congrats!
Updated: I linked the wrong graphic. Corrected.
February 17th, 2008 at 7:48 am
I am very surprised that that map shows the south bay as HOTTER than SF. I thought SF was on fire real estate wise.
February 17th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Sorry if I’m missing a joke here, but MSM actually stands for “mainstream media”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSM
February 17th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Malapropisms like that are common on Teh Intertubes. Main Street for Main Stream, etc.
February 17th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Sorry if I’m missing a joke here, but MSM actually stands for “mainstream media”.
It’s sort of a running gag.
February 17th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
BOOYAH! Redwood City IS THE REAL BAY AREA!
Yo RealEstater, howz about those $200,000 off prices in “THE REAL BAY AREA” aka Redwood City!
September 10th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
[...] past year barely brushed the Greater San Francisco region. Prices - at least in the coveted “Real Bay Area” - never really dropped and are actually still rising in some parts, contrary to economic or [...]