> But what this “native” Bay Area kid won’t do is start blaming the guy from North Carolina or Wisconsin or Boston—basically every other person in the bar—for propelling the rents into the sky and inadvertently forcing the “locals” to flee.

The author hasn’t been to a Berkeley (or San Francisco, or a Penninsula town) city council meeting... there is a lot of very blatant resentment in the Bay Area directed (mostly unfairly) at transplants.