Preppies who had partied at the Triangle moved in, and Marina People as we know them were born. It's hard to pinpoint. In the dot-com boom of the late '90s, more upwardly mobile white people came to the Marina, not to mention the Mission, Noe Valley, and the rest of San Francisco. But the Marina continues to bear the brunt of yuppie bashing. At the Balboa, a bar in the Triangle, every head turns when the door opens.
Sex is in the air.
Though they wonder about people in other parts of the city, they say, it's more comfortable to stay in the Marina most of the time.