Travel Article: Searching for Silicon Valley

Re:Travel Article: Searching for Silicon Valley by ardit33 on Friday April 17, 2009 @08:45AM (#566795)

From a tourist's point of view, I have to say "Silicon Valley" is the biggest disappointment ever. It is a sad failure of urban design. Parking lots, office parks, with some vegetation sprinkled around, and the usual food places. Very like most of the midwest.

I think it is a huge failure of urban design. Everytime I drive down on the always congested 101, I am reminded on how much better this place would have been if it had chosen a more European urban city/village design.

BTW. The majority of googlers are I know, hate the location. They'd love if they could work in SF, but they have to do this soul crushing 1hr commute everyday.

Why wouldn't they live around Mountain View? Simple, if you are single, that place is boring to borderline depressing.

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Re:Travel Article: Searching for Silicon Valley by johnrob on Friday April 17, 2009 @01:29PM (#567296)

Over the years, I've come to realize that the "quality" of urban design can be approximated by the ease at which one can travel while drunk. Mountain View is an epic fail.

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Re:Travel Article: Searching for Silicon Valley by h1bored on Friday April 17, 2009 @03:58PM (#567528)

As a first approximation, that's a good metric :-) And yes, it does make the valley an epic fail in general. You can caltrain/vta both ways to a certain extent. Or else its cabs. But really, there's not a decent downtown all the way from morgan hill until you hit san francisco.

I find San Jose downtown to just be a bit depressing.

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