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2025: That's the (%$&!ing ridiculous) year that BART is scheduled to open up in downtown San Jose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_San_Jose_%28BART_stati

by varelse 13y ago

2025: That's the (%$&!ing ridiculous) year that BART is scheduled to open up in downtown San Jose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_San_Jose_%28BART_station%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_San_Jose_%28BART_stati... In the meantime, downtown Oakland has many of the same problems (and a surprisingly similar crime rate) as downtown Santa Cruz (OK Oakland is more violent by a bit). The former is right next to San Francisco and the latter is right next to UCSC, both technological hotbeds. I wouldn't want to live in either place because they're just not safe(tm) and by that I mean the perception more than the reality. SF dealt with such issues by pushing all the "undesirables" out of the center of the city and into the residential neighborboods. I wonder how Oakland would deal with this. Santa Cruz OTOH continues to stick its head deep into its own digestive endpoint and deny such problems even exist.

Aloha 13y ago
Moving to SC has one big issue - Highway 17. It's one of the most dangerous highways in the State of California - even worse I'd argue than CA-152.
- varelse 13y ago
  Route 17 should not be an issue. Santa Cruz should be filled to the brim with tech jobs incubated by the mere existence of UCSC and its top-notch CS department. It's a beautiful place with ugly problems. It's washed out hippy and NIMBY central with a crony government that presides over an unconscionable crime and homeless rate as well as a runaway meth problem. In just the past few weeks there have been drive by shootings and a mental case driving a car into the lobby of a downtown theatre and slicing his own throat with a shard of windshield glass. Last year, the most famous thing that happened there was two cops getting gunned down: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/us/violence-spurs-identity-crisis-in-free-spirited-santa-cruz.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/us/violence-spurs-identity... I harp on Santa Cruz because based on the shenanigans there, I don't think the great Oakland migration is going to happen. There are just too many other places to live in the bay area. What we need is a county-wide moment of clarity about mass transit. I'm not expecting that either. I'm expecting status quo. In an age when we could at least work partially remotely, the trend is running towards banning telecommuting and pushing more and more people into coding boiler rooms. Yuck.
crassus 13y ago
The unsafeness isn't just perception. I see friends becoming victims of violent crime and property crime in Oakland/SF on Facebook fairly regularly, and I don't have that many city friends. The cities are too progressive to seriously address their crime problem. Someone needs to call Giuliani.

by varelse 13y ago

Aloha 13y ago

Moving to SC has one big issue - Highway 17. It's one of the most dangerous highways in the State of California - even worse I'd argue than CA-152.

varelse 13y ago
Route 17 should not be an issue. Santa Cruz should be filled to the brim with tech jobs incubated by the mere existence of UCSC and its top-notch CS department. It's a beautiful place with ugly problems. It's washed out hippy and NIMBY central with a crony government that presides over an unconscionable crime and homeless rate as well as a runaway meth problem. In just the past few weeks there have been drive by shootings and a mental case driving a car into the lobby of a downtown theatre and slicing his own throat with a shard of windshield glass. Last year, the most famous thing that happened there was two cops getting gunned down: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/us/violence-spurs-identity-crisis-in-free-spirited-santa-cruz.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/us/violence-spurs-identity... I harp on Santa Cruz because based on the shenanigans there, I don't think the great Oakland migration is going to happen. There are just too many other places to live in the bay area. What we need is a county-wide moment of clarity about mass transit. I'm not expecting that either. I'm expecting status quo. In an age when we could at least work partially remotely, the trend is running towards banning telecommuting and pushing more and more people into coding boiler rooms. Yuck.

crassus 13y ago

The unsafeness isn't just perception. I see friends becoming victims of violent crime and property crime in Oakland/SF on Facebook fairly regularly, and I don't have that many city friends. The cities are too progressive to seriously address their crime problem. Someone needs to call Giuliani.