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I think it's great that they're moving to San Jose. Probably just a drop in the bucket, but it'd be great for the Bay Area if San Jose were to increase in desir
by rrdharan 10y ago
I think it's great that they're moving to San Jose. Probably just a drop in the bucket, but it'd be great for the Bay Area if San Jose were to increase in desirability relative to San Francisco.
I've spent a few evenings in San Jose after Sharks games, and shows or conferences at the HP Pavilion. It always seemed to be punching below its weight. Off-hand though I don't see why San Jose can't become more attractive, considering Detroit and Pittsburgh seem to be pulling it off.
- dionidium 10y agoI don't know what drives others, but San Jose doesn't have any of the history, architecture, or institutions that made me fall in love with Pittsburgh and Detroit. And it certainly doesn't have any of the grit. San Francisco has those things in abundance.
- contergan 10y agoWhat exactly is "the grit"? The homeless people and crackheads?
- jdpedrie 10y agoIt's like pornography. You know it when you see it.
- koolba 10y agoI'd argue it's the reverse, you know when it's lacking.
- bluedino 10y agoSan Jose is boring, cookie-cutter suburbia.
- Reason077 10y agoRight. Nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit there. Unless it's for WWDC, of course!
- freehunter 10y agoAbandoned warehouses that are being renovated into office space, people who have struggled to get where they are today, success stories, personal loss and tragedy, you know, the human factor. A lot of people like places with "character", where character is defined as "not perfect". I've never been to San Jose so I can't comment on it, but I've been to Pittsburgh and Detroit. They have character. Those cites are more human than many actual humans I've met.
- kobeya 10y agoSan Jose has everything you describe. Literally next door to the train station is a block of almond factories converted into modern apartments. I wouldn't describe a place I've never been to... Edit: you aren't the GP, sorry.
- PascLeRasc 10y agoI totally agree. My partner just came back from a trip to SF and a lot of her colleagues (neurosci grad students) were really disdainful of her being from Pittsburgh, but we both really love it here. There's so much culture here that was hard to find in Boston for me or SF for her.
- 27182818284 10y ago>Abandoned warehouses...renovated into office space I can't read this and not get sad about Ghost Ship
- peatmoss 10y agoI don't see it working without a substantial increase in (more affordable) housing stock. Last I looked, San Jose had the highest median home price in the country.
- surfmike 10y agoUsually that refers to SJ metro which includes Cupertino, Los Gatos, Mountain View, probably even Palo Alto.
- estel 10y agoI think the main reason they're in San Jose is that Moscone is being renovated at the moment? (Which isn't to say that it won't stick).
- mrpippy 10y agoWWDC has always taken place at Moscone West, which is not involved in the renovation/construction
- mark_l_watson 10y agoI agree, San Jose is a nice city to visit. When I consulted at Google we lived in Mountain View and my wife and I went to San Jose to have fun about as often as SF. I am now doing my first serious iOS dev project and I might go to my first AWWDC.
- ghaff 10y agoGiven the fact that, as others have noted, it's not like San Jose is a depressed area, the downtown--such as it is--is just sort of boring and run down in spots. I was at an open compute platform conference there for the first time in ages a couple of years back. (Many moons ago I used to attend Intel Developers Forums there regularly). On the one hand, the environment (restaurants, etc.) had improved somewhat but I was surprised that the overall downtown hadn't become more vibrant and interesting than it was.
- stuckagain 10y agoLast time I went to downtown SJ it certainly did seem depressed. I just wanted to see what was going on so I took an Uber down there. At St. James Park I saw some drunks fighting, and cops trying to separate them. Nearby was an encampment of several tents. South of there on 2nd I thought I might find a cafe or deli or something, but all I found were vacant lots and empty storefronts, and more derelicts staggering around. Keep in mind this was at noon on a weekday, not the middle of the night. South of Santa Clara on 2nd I saw more empty buildings, a Chinese mini mart, more drunks, a large surface parking lot (mostly empty) adjoining a rail line. I thought I could get back to Mountain View on VTA, since I was walking along that streetcar line anyway, but it was going to take 80 minutes so I had to call a car to escape. San Jose appeared to be a prosperous American city without any prosperity to speak of.
- JamilD 10y agoSan Jose is mostly just suburban sprawl. There needs to be more investment in the downtown area, and transit — hopefully BART coming to San Jose in the 2020s will help.
- cguess 10y agoI was just in SF and had to take a meeting in San Jose. The fact that I couldn't take a train all the way down completely blew my mind. What's the point of a commuter rail if it involves an hour bus ride to the other major population center in the region?
- milesskorpen 10y agoCal Train goes SF -> San Jose, though it can be a bit inconvenient at either end.
- iampims 10y agoCaltrain goes from SF to SJ
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- crabstraggler 10y agoSan Jose is a faggot filled cesspool
- shalmanese 10y agofun fact: San Jose is the largest American city never to have a feature film set in it.