No surprises here. Nothing serves as a better poster child for that "uncanny valley" just outside Silicon Valley than San Jose. San Jose is literally the end-

No surprises here. Nothing serves as a better poster child for that "uncanny valley" just outside Silicon Valley than San Jose. San Jose is literally the end-of-the-line on Caltran and has no single "cultural" or "business" identity of its own. In the bay area, the cream (e.g. money) continues to "rise northward". Given a choice, why would anyone choose to live "so close, yet so far" away from the economic or cultural center of activity? They don't. They choose either to pay the "Bay Tax" in terms of congestion and fixed living costs to be "in the center" of things, xor reap the significant cost savings, but relative isolation, of living well outside the region (Portland, Boulder, etc.).