Article: San Francisco, San Jose in Cultural Battle for Young Technology Workers.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Oct. 16--Stephanie Robesky's sleek black outfit hugs her buffed, party-ready body. All around her on the strobe-lit dance floor, pulsating dot-commers inside this South of Market club gyrate to thudding techno music. Robesky, a senior e-commerce manager for Sega.com, gives me a "can-we-talk" look: "I only lived in Cupertino for three to four months. Netscape was just 10 minutes away. But it was soooo boooring," she says, giving her stylishly cropped short black hair an impatient shake. "I'm only 24."

The implication is obvious. Who in their right mind except a suburbanized geek would stick around Silicon Valley?

I'm not sure when it happened -- when the ...

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