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Jim B. · #12 11-17-2007, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by cmac2012

BTW, I was in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara t'other day. Lord help us, let me out of this place if I can figure the streets out. If it wasn't non-descript neighborhoods near industrial areas, it was soul-less banks of apt. buildings. Shopping malls and chain stores wherever I look. And then the damned Lawrence Expressway, a freeway with traffic lights. Oh boy.

I'll take Berkeley any day to those burgs. Chain store/franchises are kept at a distance in B-town, very few of them, instead we have locally run stores and restaurants -- some of the best coffee houses I've found in the bay. Now that I'm living in Redwood City (my heart's still in Berkeley) I've been forced to go to Starbucks often as not. I much prefer Peet's or the two Roma coffee shops in Berkeley -- better coffee and much nicer atmosphere.

My condolences. I spent time living in Redwood City, and knew its neighborhoods well. It simply is what it is. I did not regret moving from there to the City. I made the best of it while I was there, used to run on the Parcourse at Canada College, and took a bunch of Real Estate courses there.

Santa Clara/Sunnyvale is just an area attached to San Jose. It is the heart of the Biotech industry and the Silicon Valley. I can't stand the place. Compared to SF and Berkeley, it is sheer hell. Purgatory, at least.

In fact, the only place on the entire peninsula I could even stand was the area around Stanford University, and the downtowns of Palo Alto and Menlo Park, and if forced to go, the Stanford Shopping Center. A handful of exotic car dealers if you know where to look for them.

Rest of it can go hang, so far as I am concerned