Which is kind of nuts considering that most people on those busses can't afford the South Bay houses they're commuting past. Otherwise there'd be no bus.
disclaimer: the windows were shot out when I was riding the Google bus a couple years back
Eh, 20% of households in the Bay Area earn under $36k/year. Obviously shooting out bus windows isn't the right approach, but I think you may be underestimating just how much of a divide there is between even average tech workers and lower class people living in the region.
The division between long time Californian landowning families and 20-something immigrant engineers somehow never comes up.
Someone's whose been making 250k before taxes isn't poor by any stretch. But they're nowhere near affording a house in Mountain View, hence the busses.
I'm sorry but but a single person making nearly an order of magnitude more than a low income household in the same metro is more than just not poor. There is worlds of difference between not getting to live in the neighborhood you want compared to being severely rent burdened, having a horrible commute, and having to deal with a subpar living living situation in whatever handful neighborhoods have apartments remotely in your price range.
Also, a quick glance at zillow listings looks to me like someone making $250k/year could easily afford to rent an apartment in Mountain View and would have a good shot at buying a cheaper condo there too. Sure buying a single family home might be out of reach, but it is hard to feel too much sympathy about that
disclaimer: the windows were shot out when I was riding the Google bus a couple years back