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Third, be prepared for major culture, social, and identity shock - especially if you SAH and end up living in a less diverse area. I have been really lonely and not being skinny/blonde/30s/Black SUV driver has basically made me a pariah among the local moms where we currently live.  [/quote]
 Where do you live that's like this?  I'm Asian American and used to live on the Peninsula.  There aren't *that* many places around the Bay Area that is this white.[/quote]

PP - We're currently in the Lamorinda/Danville/CCC area. I'm in a local moms group with a "diversity" subgroup and this is a common complaint. Only the nannies talk to me.  [/quote]
Ah yes... the more east you go, the more "whiter" it is.  Sunnyvale area has a lot more Asians.

Unfortunately, OP is AA, and [b]there aren't many places in SV where there is a sizeable AA population. [/b] Not to say that there aren't *any*. Certainly in my Peninsula neighborhood, we had a few, but again, not sizeable.  I wouldn't worry about any racism, though.  The whole SV has so many expats and foreign workers, they are used to "other" looking people.[/quote]

We are in Oakland, and know a surprising number of AA families who live here and commute to SV for this reason specifically. You couldn't pay me to do that commute, but it is worth it to them to raise their kids in a more diverse community with peers and teachers who look like them. (Notably, most have at least one parent who works in SF or Oakland, so they're not both commuting to SV, and there are shuttles to the big tech companies, with lots of work-from-home flexibility. But still!)[/quote]

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