Heck, I should add that I visited Mountain View (Shoreline) in '91, and the SGI campus which is now Google looks almost exactly the same. Big changes: more buildings, and the monstrosity which is the PageEgoPlex that is going up now, but substantially the same. Many people who worked for Adobe, etc, say they've worked in the same building for 2-3 companies with just minor interior redecoration.

So, other than making things more congested, Google hasn't really transformed MTV.

You're forgetting the gBikes abandoned at the MTV Caltrain station or outside random stores/parks (not always by Google employees or interns). That and the new restaurants on Castro Street. The former is a net negative, the latter a positive.

> gBikes

bike sharing schemes are such a plague. And people were all shocked when GoBee up and died. now we have their stupid bikes littered all over the place.

Bike sharing schemes aren't all bad. Copenhagen has Donkey Republic[1] which works well and doesn't seem to cause any issues.

Of course it helps that they city is flat - San Francisco is clearly more suited to electrically-assisted modes of transport.

[1] https://www.donkey.bike/cities/bike-rental-copenhagen/

i didn't really go east of 101 for the 10 years I worked there.

Huh? Where the hell in SJ were you, because the Google campus is going in DTSJ and that is not remotely what you describe.

I was describing Sunnyvale and Cupertino, which I guess are technically Santa Clara.