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Re:Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million res... by Androsynth on Monday May 14, 2012 @10:48PM (#3974604)
Have you ever been south of Palo Alto? There is not much of a difference between San Jose and LA (I have lived in both).

Besides, LA is not ugly because of the population density, but because of the endless sprawl.

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Re:Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million res... by Apocryphon on Monday May 14, 2012 @11:45PM (#3974783)
How do the two cities resemble each other? SJ seems sleepy and is basically a giant suburb.
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Re:Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million res... by Androsynth on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @01:08AM (#3975002)
Parts of it are sleepy, parts of it arent. But really its just endless tract housing and strip malls.

(also similar: minimal amount of nature within the city itself; lots of concrete but not in an elegant urban way; not much in the way of historical sections)

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Re:Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million res... by mturmon on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @12:58AM (#3974977)
Parts of the western San Fernando valley, which lies within LA proper, are not that dissimilar from SJ.

And, when people say "LA", they really mean the LA area, which contains not only the city itself, but outlying/surrounded cities like Pasadena, Santa Monica, Compton, Long Beach, etc.

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