It’s a familiar refrain: A tech boom in Silicon Valley — one that this time is poised to take the tech region to record peaks of employment as well as population levels — is putting pressure on housing prices and the congested transportation networks in the Bay Area.

The Wall Street Journal was the latest to weigh in on this long-running issue, now front and center with a proposed office boom in Mountain View, expansions of big business parks in Sunnyvale, new development in Santa Clara, and a push to develop office complexes in north San Jose.

Yet the current technology surge in the Bay Area, which has really taken off in Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, San Francisco,