A brief elaboration on &quot;many people hostile to software engineers in general&quot;: the major source of this are the employers who have done a deal with the apartment owners to all but exclude anyone who doesn&#x27;t work in the tech industry.  The apartment owner simply doesn&#x27;t rent to anyone who doesn&#x27;t work for Amazon, Microsoft etc[1]. This makes people grumpy at the folks who apparently do the deal with the devil for this advantage.  By the bye, there is a difference, at least politically, between Seattle and Bellevue, much like between San Francisco and Oakland<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thestranger.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;feature&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;22831041&#x2F;heres-how-the-city-could-stop-those-special-move-in-deals-for-tech-workers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thestranger.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;feature&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;22831041&#x2F;...</a>