I know a lot of democrats with that view but maybe I run with a small sample.

Well San Jose is more a collection of suburbs and the Tech Companies in the L.A. area are located in some far flung suburbs like Simi Valley and West-Lake and now days Arcadia and Valencia.
Very few are down town L.A. close
The bad part is very hard to work in these areas without a car.
Also the funny part is the rich in China try to live like us.
I think TG had it right, one day in the future we will look back and figure out we were right.