July 20, 2003

aka "The City"

Well, Ernie seems to have gotten his knickers in a twist over a recent U.S. Census Bureau report in which San Jose gets top Bay Area billing because of population… some funny stuff.

About ten years ago a friend of mine moved out here from North Carolina. He found a nice little place in Oakland. The first time he crossed the bridge to meet me for dinner I said something about being happy to finally see him in the City. He said “The City?”, and I explained that in the Bay Area people just referred to San Francisco as “the City.” Well, he didn't like that at all and in the typical stubborn fashion of my group of friends attempted to not call San Francisco anything like “the City” for the next few years. Eventually, like river water smoothing a stone, he gave in and started calling it what everyone else did.

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Comments

Obviously your Southern friend just needed some gentle prodding to come around to see that a prohibitively expensive cost of living earns any metropolitan area the right to condescend to podunk outlands like Oakland. Should've stayed East Coast, the bumpkin. Do folks in Martins Ferry call Wheeling "the city?" Big snuggle coming your way, Dog.
Posted by: Granpa at July 22, 2003 07:57 PM
San Francisco will always be "The City" of the San Francisco Bay Area. It serves still as the financial center of the west coast. San Jose has no good restaurants, the nightlife is a joke, a shit of a downtown. Nearing more crime then Oakland with every other murder happening in San Jose. The San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau is so desperate to bring tourist money into San Jose (economically depressed SJ, highest commercial vacancy rate in the nation, and the second highest unemployment rate) that they were trying to lure the Scott Peterson murder case, that is just sick! If you people like homeless, well SJ is going to get alot more. It will one day be "The Capital of Homelessness" or even "The Capital of unemployment". San Francisco is the only place to be in the Bay Area. Larry Ellison (CEO Oracle) called San Jose "a future Detroit". San Jose Rant So, you're going/want/have been to San Jose, California. Congratulations, you have my condolences. San Jose is in the heart of a shit-hole valley. My real keys for determining whether I want to go some place boils down to these two questions: * Does anyone go there on vacation? * What is there to do? Does anyone go there on vacation? I've got to tell you, unless you have relatives living there, or perhaps someone in a local correctional facility, no one goes to San Jose on vacation. Why? For one, hotels are $80 a night (Since the Dot Bomb), and that's for the run-of-the-mill. Normally this will be conviently located no where near where you want to be, and is booked solid because of the Left Handed Bit Flipper Geek Convention. When it comes to architecture and pure visual beauty, most cities have something comparable to San Jose. Normally they call them ghettos or The Projects. The entire city of San Jose is located on the "Other Side of the Tracks". What is there to do in San Jose? Now, ask one of the locals what there is to do in San Jose. The conversation normally goes something like this: "What is there to do in San Jose?" "Well, you can drive over The Hill to Santa Cruz, or maybe down to Monterey" "Huh?" "Or you could drive up to San Francisco(The City) "What? Hello, geography boy! Those are all cities that are NOT San Jose" That's right, the locals all suggest that if you're in San Jose looking for something to do, you should leave San Jose! Just about the only thing to do in the city is to visit the Winchester dumb House. This is the house that the heir to the Winchester (of gun fame) had built under the direction of her spirtual advisors. I think they must have been Johnny Walker, Jim Beam and Jack Daniels. Personally, I think you should prepare for your trip to San Jose by getting out your Rand McNally road atlas, examine the San Jose area, and then repeatedly beat your head with the atlas until you either get some commonsense or lose consciousness.
Posted by: noname at January 21, 2004 03:29 AM

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