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The article drags in Sunnyvale, where I live, but can’t really find one negative thing to say about it. The population reduction is purely related to COVID WFH

by w0mbat 4y ago

The article drags in Sunnyvale, where I live, but can’t really find one negative thing to say about it. The population reduction is purely related to COVID WFH leading some people to work from elsewhere, and is temporary. It’s a very nice place to live. Low crime, good schools, great weather, plenty of jobs. Very liveable. This lazy tendency to lump SF in with Silicon Valley is dumb. SF is a peninsula, it’s not in the valley. It has a few niche companies but the huge bulk of the tech industry is down in the valley, which does not have SFs problems.

andbberger 4y ago
horrible public transit, low density/poor walkability, little to no bike infrastructure the whole penninsula is like that, it's awful. night and day between the penninsula and SF, which doesn't even rank that highly on the world stage
- w0mbat 4y ago
  It's very driveable, traffic is fine and parking is easy. Neighborhoods like downtown Mtn View and downtown Sunnyvale (where I live) are very walkable but you don't have to walk. Public transport is not the way to go in the valley, but if you do use it it's much safer than public transport in SF.
  - andbberger 4y ago
    a liveable city, this does not make. and public transport in SF is perfectly safe.
jfim 4y ago
High cost of living, the most exciting thing happening in town is the farmer's market, good schools doesn't apply to all of Sunnyvale, lack of diversity, everything that's moderately interesting is closing down (we lost weird stuff warehouse, fry's, etc.), the list goes on and on. It's liveable if one's idea of living is going to their tech job and maybe hiking on the weekends, but otherwise it's really boring.
- w0mbat 4y ago
  The big thing recently was the Obon Festival in San Jose Japantown, we had a great time. The valley is very Asian, if you don't make any asian friends you are missing out. The fact you say "lack of diversity" when many parts of the south bay are more than 50% Asian, makes you sound like the kind of racist who just does not see Asian people. Similarly, San Jose is 40% Hispanic and it's a big part of the culture down here.
  - jfim 4y ago
    It's the same lack of diversity as mining towns. Where are the people who are not working in the tech industry? Where are the people building cool arts projects? The lack of diversity refers to the fact that way too much of the people in this area are just worker drones that go to the corporate campus to work, eat at the corporate cafeteria, commute back home, and don't interact much with the community.
    - w0mbat 4y ago
      The people not working in the tech industry are everywhere, you just ignore them, then pretend they don't exist. The cool arts projects are things like the iPhone, and Google search, and Photoshop. Where do you think those things were invented?
      - jfim 4y ago
        Cupertino, Mountain view, and San Jose, none of which are Sunnyvale. Also, you're kind of proving my point if your "arts projects" are stuff that comes out of large corporations.
      - andbberger 4y ago
        > The people not working in the tech industry are everywhere, you just ignore them, then pretend they don't exist. uhh

by w0mbat 4y ago

andbberger 4y ago

horrible public transit, low density/poor walkability, little to no bike infrastructure the whole penninsula is like that, it's awful. night and day between the penninsula and SF, which doesn't even rank that highly on the world stage

w0mbat 4y ago
It's very driveable, traffic is fine and parking is easy. Neighborhoods like downtown Mtn View and downtown Sunnyvale (where I live) are very walkable but you don't have to walk. Public transport is not the way to go in the valley, but if you do use it it's much safer than public transport in SF.
- andbberger 4y ago
  a liveable city, this does not make. and public transport in SF is perfectly safe.

jfim 4y ago

High cost of living, the most exciting thing happening in town is the farmer's market, good schools doesn't apply to all of Sunnyvale, lack of diversity, everything that's moderately interesting is closing down (we lost weird stuff warehouse, fry's, etc.), the list goes on and on. It's liveable if one's idea of living is going to their tech job and maybe hiking on the weekends, but otherwise it's really boring.

w0mbat 4y ago
The big thing recently was the Obon Festival in San Jose Japantown, we had a great time. The valley is very Asian, if you don't make any asian friends you are missing out. The fact you say "lack of diversity" when many parts of the south bay are more than 50% Asian, makes you sound like the kind of racist who just does not see Asian people. Similarly, San Jose is 40% Hispanic and it's a big part of the culture down here.
- jfim 4y ago
  It's the same lack of diversity as mining towns. Where are the people who are not working in the tech industry? Where are the people building cool arts projects? The lack of diversity refers to the fact that way too much of the people in this area are just worker drones that go to the corporate campus to work, eat at the corporate cafeteria, commute back home, and don't interact much with the community.
  - w0mbat 4y ago
    The people not working in the tech industry are everywhere, you just ignore them, then pretend they don't exist. The cool arts projects are things like the iPhone, and Google search, and Photoshop. Where do you think those things were invented?
    - jfim 4y ago
      Cupertino, Mountain view, and San Jose, none of which are Sunnyvale. Also, you're kind of proving my point if your "arts projects" are stuff that comes out of large corporations.
    - andbberger 4y ago
      > The people not working in the tech industry are everywhere, you just ignore them, then pretend they don't exist. uhh