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

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.