> You mean there is a restaurant with a star? Hold the presses. How many cities of a similar size have even 1? > Art? I'll grant you this one. No great museu

> You mean there is a restaurant with a star? Hold the presses. How many cities of a similar size have even 1? > Art? I'll grant you this one. No great museums (maybe the Computer History museum?) or art galleries in MTV. > Music? Shoreline Amphitheatre? It's a rather large music venue by the water. If you want a smaller venue, Dana Street Roasting Company has live performers every weekend. The city does free concerts a few times a year. > (Cuesta Park. Which is by far the biggest "park"). Did you just completely forget the Shoreline recreational area? You can learn how to sail, windsurf, and stand-up paddleboard there. > Dance? Two nightclubs and a (salsa?) dance club in downtown. MVCPA for performances. Is that unimpressive? It's a city with 80k population, how much exactly are you expecting? > That's like saying Gary, Indiana is a great city because you can drive to Chicago. That would be a true statement if Gary had Mountain View's economy, weather, crime rates, and Michelin-starred restaurants. > In terms of diversity, yeah, no. What kind of diversity are we talking? There's plenty of people with varied cultural backgrounds and national origins. > culturally dead suburban monoculture, I'm not sure you've lived in an actual culturally dead suburban monoculture. There are some other towns I could introduce you to. I can also introduce you to towns that are actually a "pit" :-)