>Separating San Jose and San Francisco obscures how much the Bay Area is dominating this data
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Have you ever tried to commute to San Jose/Cupertino/Sunnyvale from, say, Walnut Creek, Pleasant hill, Richmond, etc..??
While they are all still in the greater SV orbit - commuting between many of the greater SV cities is a fucking nightmare.
BART, Caltrin, LightRails, Freeways, buses, etc -- are all disconnected and fucking suck.
I have turned down multiple positions in the south bay due to commuting and housing cost issues.
And if you don't think I know what I am talking about, my family is 5th generation San Franciscan, with family in Saratoga since 1959. I lived in San Jose an commuted to San Francisco from San Jose for over a decade - and lived all over.
My best commute ever was a bike+bus commute from Alameda Island to SF for almost a decade.
Worst commute was from Alameda to Sunnyvale.
The biggest problem with SV is transit first, housing second.
So to treat San Jose and San Francisco as if they were different freaking states, is to me, fair play.
I can't disagree -- I couldn't imagine working in Beverly Hills and having to make it to group therapy at noon on a Wednesday in Agoura Hills.
But I think it's asinine to think of San Francisco and San Jose as two markets in this context. To me, the top five (four) markets are no surprise.
I'd love to hear stories about the next five and the next five after that. It's far more interesting to understand how code and technology are being advanced by those outside the mainstream.
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Have you ever tried to commute to San Jose/Cupertino/Sunnyvale from, say, Walnut Creek, Pleasant hill, Richmond, etc..??
While they are all still in the greater SV orbit - commuting between many of the greater SV cities is a fucking nightmare.
BART, Caltrin, LightRails, Freeways, buses, etc -- are all disconnected and fucking suck.
I have turned down multiple positions in the south bay due to commuting and housing cost issues.
And if you don't think I know what I am talking about, my family is 5th generation San Franciscan, with family in Saratoga since 1959. I lived in San Jose an commuted to San Francisco from San Jose for over a decade - and lived all over.
My best commute ever was a bike+bus commute from Alameda Island to SF for almost a decade.
Worst commute was from Alameda to Sunnyvale.
The biggest problem with SV is transit first, housing second.
So to treat San Jose and San Francisco as if they were different freaking states, is to me, fair play.