Do Californians consider San Jose to be a shithole?

[clickhappy]

Someone from LA just told me that. is that true?

[CDSmith]

Ask someone from SD what they think of LA to balance this question out.

[mozadek]

No, it's not true.

[mineistaken]

demographics stats on the table please

[Aidoru]

Check out San Fran it's great

[The Porn Nerd]

San Jose
Fresno
Modesto
Bakersfield

=

SHITHOLES.

[docputer]

When I lived there, I didn't think it was a shithole. Haven't been back in close to 20 years, but I liked it when I was there. Good roads, public transportation, the airport wasn't exactly modern, but you could get there and on your plane fairly fast(pre-TSA). Close to San Francisco, and not too bad a drive to Monterrey. Easy commute to where I worked.

[fris]

when i lived in san jose, salinas, and morgan hill it was utter shit.

[BAKO]

Originally Posted by MisterPeabody

San Jose
Fresno
Modesto
Bakersfield

=

SHITHOLES.

Fresno has good fruits and veggies yo

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by fris

when i lived in san jose, salinas, and morgan hill it was utter shit.

Utter shit in US are only ghettos, not full cities.

[PeR930]

San jose is not bad, unlike fresno, modesto, and bakersfield.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by clickhappy

Someone from LA just told me that. is that true?

I never did, I like SJ

[baddog]

San Jose is pretty upscale in all the areas I have frequented.

[baddog]

Originally Posted by MisterPeabody

San Jose
Fresno
Modesto
Bakersfield

=

SHITHOLES.

I can't tell if you are kidding or not; SJ does not belong on the same list as the other three.

Originally Posted by fris

when i lived in san jose, salinas, and morgan hill it was utter shit.

Comparing Salinas to either of those makes me wonder how old you were when you lived there. They are not anywhere close to the same.

[fris]

Originally Posted by baddog

I can't tell if you are kidding or not; SJ does not belong on the same list as the other three.



Comparing Salinas to either of those makes me wonder how old you were when you lived there. They are not anywhere close to the same.

i was 17 ;)

long time ago

[baddog]

Originally Posted by fris

i was 17 ;)

long time ago

You remember that one was crops and the other two were cities, right?

[Nasty]

Lived in SJ for 20 years, I liked it, not even close to a shithole in my book. There are bad areas like any big city but there are also a lot of really nice areas.

[sicone]

I wouldn't call San Jose a shit hole at all. It does have some really shitty areas, but what city doesn't. A lot of big business's in Silicon Valley including Google.

Originally Posted by fris

when i lived in san jose, salinas, and morgan hill it was utter shit.

I lived in Salinas for a few yrs as child when my mom was working at Soledad. I was only preschool age then, so I don't really remember shit about it.

[slavdogg]

Originally Posted by MisterPeabody

San Jose
Fresno
Modesto
Bakersfield

=

SHITHOLES.

v
yup !!!!

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

San Jose = Great weather, diverse population, low crime, high average income (the downside is a high cost of living), excellent schools, lots of entertainment options, and close proximity to San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and easy driving distance to the Sierras (Lake Tahoe, etc).

The large concentration of high-technology engineering, computer, and microprocessor companies around San Jose has led the area to be known as Silicon Valley.

As the largest city in the valley, San Jose has billed itself "the capital of Silicon Valley." Area schools such as the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, California State University, East Bay, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University pump thousands of engineering and computer science graduates into the local economy every year.

High economic growth during the tech bubble caused employment, housing prices, and traffic congestion to peak in the late 1990s. As the economy slowed in the early 2000s, employment and traffic congestion diminished somewhat. In the mid-2000s, traffic along major highways again began to worsen as the economy improved. San Jose had 405,000 jobs within its city limits in 2006, and an unemployment rate of 4.6%. In 2000, San Jose residents had the highest median household income of any city in the United States with a population over 300,000, and currently has the highest median income of any U.S. city with over 280,000 people.

San Jose lists many companies with 1,000 employees or more, including the headquarters of Adobe, Altera, Brocade Communications Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco Systems, eBay, Lee's Sandwiches, Sanmina-SCI, and Xilinx, as well as major facilities for Becton Dickinson, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Kaiser Permanente and KLA Tencor. The North American headquarters of Samsung are located in San Jose.

Other large companies based in San Jose include Altera, Atmel, CEVA, Cypress Semiconductor, Echelon, Integrated Device Technology, Micrel, Netgear, Novellus Systems, Oclaro, Online Trading Academy, Quantum, SunPower, Supermicro, Tessera Technologies, TiVo, Ultratech, and VeriFone. Sizable government employers include the city government, Santa Clara County, and San Jose State University. Acer's United States division has its offices in San Jose.

The cost of living in San Jose and the surrounding areas is among the highest in California and the nation. Housing costs are the primary reason for the high cost of living, although the costs in all areas tracked by the ACCRA Cost of Living Index are above the national average. Despite the high cost of living in San Jose, households in city limits have the highest disposable income of any city in the U.S. with over 500,000 residents.

San Jose residents produce more U.S. patents than any other city. Thirty-five percent of all venture capital funds in the U.S. are invested in San Jose and Silicon Valley companies.

Currently 3rd largest city in California, 10th largest city in the USA.



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[Far-L]

Try finding a 3 bedroom 2 bath place most would call a "bungalow" for less than a million. Most of the low income families have been pushed out and have to commute because it is so pricey to live there.

I wouldn't say it is a shithole by any stretch, in fact, at this point SJ just seems like an extension of Palo Alto and Menlo. I can say that it is expensive as shit to own a home there.

[baddog]

Are you sure they were not talking about Stockton?

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by clickhappy

Someone from LA just told me that. is that true?

Just noticed your sig says you live in Sunnyvale (which is right outside of San Jose).



Do you consider San Jose a shithole? If so, explain how Sunnyvale is way different?

It amazes me when you get out of Northern California how many people in SoCal do not know where San Jose is. Of course when you get out of California, it's worse - although many people don't even know the capital of California is Sacramento (most frequent wrong answer: LA), and they can't find Sacramento on a map, in any case.







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[baddog]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

It amazes me when you get out of Northern California how many people in SoCal do not know where San Jose is.

I would venture to say that most of the people I know from down here know where SJ is.

I'd guess that the ones you are talking to are transplants so it would be like asking someone from North Carolina where a town in Maryland was.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Once you have lived in Stockton, everywhere else in California feels better by default.

Also, San Jose has Psycho Donuts and the Retro Dome which would keep it out of shithole category for me.

[PornMD]

Isn't San Jose a big wine city? How would it be possible for it to be a shithole if it is?

[sperbonzo]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

It amazes me when you get out of Northern California how many people in SoCal do not know where San Jose is. Of course when you get out of California, it's worse - although many people don't even know the capital of California is Sacramento (most frequent wrong answer: LA), and they can't find Sacramento on a map, in any case.



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Sure, but by the same token, if I interviewed people on the street in California, how many would know the capital of N.Y. (Albany)? It's the same kind of thing everywhere you go....



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[baddog]

Originally Posted by PornMD

Isn't San Jose a big wine city?

I don't recall that ever being their claim to fame.

[baddog]

Originally Posted by sperbonzo

Sure, but by the same token, if I interviewed people on the street in California, how many would know the capital of N.Y. (Albany)? It's the same kind of thing everywhere you go....



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wow . . . .

[Tofu]

Originally Posted by baddog

Are you sure they were not talking about Stockton?

[Sarah_Jayne]

Originally Posted by sperbonzo

Sure, but by the same token, if I interviewed people on the street in California, how many would know the capital of N.Y. (Albany)? It's the same kind of thing everywhere you go....



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Everywhere you go, people didn't pay attention in elementary school?

[baddog]

Originally Posted by Sarah_Jayne

Everywhere you go, people didn't pay attention in elementary school?

Apparently

[Dankasaur]

Dang a lot of hate on Bakersfield. I lived there when I was really young, and went back to help some family move back here around 8th grade and I liked it...

[slapass]

Originally Posted by Sarah_Jayne

Everywhere you go, people didn't pay attention in elementary school?

Knowing the capitols of every state is cool when you are twelve and degrades from there.

[sperbonzo]

Originally Posted by sarah_jayne

everywhere you go, people didn't pay attention in elementary school?

exactly!




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[Sarah_Jayne]

Originally Posted by slapass

Knowing the capitols of every state is cool when you are twelve and degrades from there.

I'm glad I never really cared if having a basic level of knowledge was cool or not.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by sperbonzo

Sure, but by the same token, if I interviewed people on the street in California, how many would know the capital of N.Y. (Albany)? It's the same kind of thing everywhere you go....

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When I was working on a secondary education (High School teaching) certificate at college, I was appalled at the basic info that kids in high school were lacking. Then when I learned how much teachers are expected to stick to truly lame curriculums, I decided that teaching might not be for me, unless I wanted to teach at the college level.



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[marcop]

Originally Posted by MisterPeabody

San Jose
Fresno
Modesto
Bakersfield

=

SHITHOLES.

You forgot Santa Rosa... it's like a small version of LA but with worse weather and NOTHING to do there.

[baddog]

Originally Posted by marcop

You forgot Santa Rosa... it's like a small version of LA but with worse weather and NOTHING to do there.

Small version of LA? circa what year for LA?

[bigmoney]

From some people I've met from San Jose, they don't like living there.

[poncabare]

no a shit hole would be bakersfield or richmond