One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer

Re:One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer by ilovecaching on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:18PM (#18817528)

You're taking this way to literally. Union City isn't a city. It's a small town at best. Redwood City is like a bigger town. Fremont is also town sized. San Carlos is literally a town I've visited in Indiana. None of these places are worthy of being called cities except for Oakland and maybe San Jose.

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Re:One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer by agency on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:26PM (#18817617)

This is a truly insane take. San Jose, the 3rd most populous city in California and 10th most populous in the entire United States is _maybe_ a city?

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Re:One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer by masonic on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:09AM (#18823190)

It's a city with a long-dead downtown surrounded by sprawl.

(SJ native here)

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Re:One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer by idontpost on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:44PM (#18817841)

By global standards, yes.

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Re:One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer by Redoubts on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:29PM (#18821215)

Yes, America sucks at urbanization.

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Re:One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer by messick on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:32PM (#18817689)

Since San Jose is the 10th largest city in the US by population, perhaps you aren't the best gatekeeper when it comes to what constitutes a city, and what does not.

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Re:One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer by nilkn on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:46PM (#18818526)

As it turns out there are actually definitions for these things, but it can differ not just by country but also by state within the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town#United_States

CA does not legally acknowledge any distinction between towns and cities. However, many states require a "town" to have fewer than 1,000, 2,000, 6,000, etc., residents (the bound varying by state). Union City has ~75,000 people, which would prevent it from being considered a small town in the majority of states that distinguish rigorously between towns and cities.

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Re:One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer by masonic on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:11AM (#18823196)

Some, like Los Gatos and Woodside, specifically incorporated as "Town of" in their name and public branding.

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Re:One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer by amgutier on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:33PM (#18818404)

San Jose is larger than San Francisco.

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Re:One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer by masonic on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:07AM (#18823184)

Fremont's population is over 215,000

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