Around San Francisco, most Chinese are Cantonese, butin the southern San Francisco Bay Area, jobs in Silicon Valley attract many Taiwanese who have studied in America. Old folk from Taiwan who immigrate to America live where their children live. There are six or seven Chinese seniors 'associations there, most for Mandarin speakers.
舊金山的老人社團則可分為兩大部份，在舊金山市區，是以講廣東話的老僑為主；而靠近舊金山南灣矽谷高科技城，則因為有眾多的台灣留學生在此就業，台灣老人「逐子女而居」，因此這一帶為數約六、七個老人社團，多半是講國語的。