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First Heller, now this, what's happenin' in the SF? I hope it doesn't migrate north......

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Why Ty moved away all the bookstores closed on both sides of the Bay. Coincidence? I think not.

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And Thelen. Eep.

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Apparently Heller in Seattle went under too!!! It is migrating! You bastards!

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Interesting, yes. Ironically, within 60 days of when I moved from the east coast to Chicago, Jordan came out retirement and returned to the Bulls. Within 60 days of when I left chicago, Jordan retired again. Think about it.

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I heard he felt that while you were there the people needed distraction or they would be bored to tears, so he played. I'm not saying i agree with him, but that is what my resources say drove his decision. fucker. i don't think you could bore an entire metropolitan area.

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2. Jordan knows better. I was the one who turned Rodman on to the wedding dress stunt and hot pink nail polish.

Anyone left?
 

Nothing much going on here. I guess everyone's been laid off...

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Or moved to DC to work for Obama.

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If you were working the in the Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Menlo Park type area, where would you live? Assume that you tend to prefer cities to suburbs, and you don't want a super long commute. Is San Jose a decent place to live?

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A lot of people who feel that way make the commute from San Francisco, if city life is important to you. The rest of us just live the suburbs and spend less time in our cars.

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My sister prefers to commute from the Mission than live in Palo Alto. She can work from home three days a week, though, so she's not spending all of her week on CalTrain.

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Like the angry monkey said, there are a lot of people who take CalTrain down from SF to SV - Mountain View in particular. I have a friend who used to live in the city, take the train to Mountain View, and then bike from the station to his office. That's the beauty of Silicon Valley weather.

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San Jose is a decent place to live, but I'm not confident that it is a "city" in the sense you mean. It's larger than San Francisco, but much more sprawling and without distinct urban neighborhoods. The downtown looks like it has been redeveloped all within the last 20 years, because it has. This has left it with a somewhat artificial urban character, and I think the neighborhoods of the Peninsula are more authentic, which is what most people are looking for (rather than the middle-of-the-night amenities of a large metropolis). Also, in downtown San Jose, you cannot drive four blocks without a cop following you for at least two of them. It's the most thoroughly policed city I've ever been to.

Needless to say, don't make any decisions until you've visited with this specific issue in mind. I think some people would say that Palo Alto is the kind of "urban" they're looking for -- by which they mean it's not exactly like the suburb where they grew up, but it's also not a big scary city. It has a central drag with good restaurants and bookshops where you can hang out, and coffee shops galore. I think that's what most yuppies mean when they say "city." YMMV.