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Surface, would seem to require commitment. famously gray, rainy, not particularly friendly and all the way up there, in the far corner of the country. a place you could get work in the aircraft industry, or make music or rather notoriously, become a serial killer. whether outfitting prospectors during the alaskan gold rush or looking for some kind of cred from the music scene, it's always boom or bust. now it's a new kind of boom. microsoft, google, twitter, expedia and amazon are the big dogs in town. a flood of them. tech industry workers, mostly male, derisively referred to as "tech boys" o...

"the hill" has become the new weekend stomping ground of breeders from the tech companies and the locals are displeased. john criscitello, street artist that is waging a one-man war against the rent hikes that are pushing people like him out of the neighborhood. >> anthony: are we talking about an infestation of tech bros? is this, uh, what, 10 years ago would this be a gay neighborhood? >> john: it was, sort of, an enclave for artists and for queer people. >> anthony: and, so what's happening now? >> john: old, big tech corporations that have moved into the city -- people need some place to l...

>> capitol hill is seattle's established gay-borhood, going back to the mid-1960's. old-school cool but with every passing day -- change. "the hill" has become the new weekend stomping ground of breeders from the tech companies and the locals are displeased. john criscitello, street artist that is waging a one-man war against the rent hikes that are pushing people like him out of the neighborhood. >> anthony: are we talking about an infestation of tech bros? is this, uh, what, 10 years ago would this be a gay neighborhood? >> john: it was, sort of, an enclave for artists and for queer people. ...

Male, derisively referred to as "tech boys" or "tech bros" are rapidly changing the dna of the city. rewiring it to satisfy their own newly empowered nerdly appetites. meet our new apple martini drinking overlords. ♪ tech boys tech boys ♪ ♪ tech boys tech boys ♪ ♪ tech boys tech boys ♪ ♪ tech boys tech boys ♪ ♪ with your mustache and your paycheck ♪ ♪ and your blue badge and your limp dick ♪ ♪ with your mouth full of the party line ♪ ♪ and your weekends working overtime ♪ ♪ overtime overtime ♪ >> anthony: fish and chips is a thing, right? >> dustin: that's a...

>> anthony: are we talking about an infestation of tech bros? is this, uh, what, 10 years ago would this be a gay neighborhood? >> john: it was, sort of, an enclave for artists and for queer people. >> anthony: and, so what's happening now? >> john: old, big tech corporations that have moved into the city -- people need some place to live so a lot of development companies bought up every corner. if they keep this sort of façade, they can build taller. so this was just this, and then they plunk this down in the center of it. >> anthony: ah, so they're keeping the character of the neighborhood ...