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San Jose has a better downtown than Seattle because it's more user friendly and better thought and planned out. In Dt. Seattle, you still have some seediness to it: like a strip club, downtrodden area (around 3rd and Pine, where drug dealers hang out and beat up and mugg people), dirty alleys, and lots of homeless people.
San Jose has almost no seedy, if not none, in the downtown area. There have been 0 homicide in Dt. SJ in the last 3 years, while Dt.Seattle has quite a few in months. San Jose has a relative peaceful downtown and Seattle has a violent downtown. They're alot fewer homeless people in Dt. San Jose than Seattle's.
Downtown San Jose has all the things you can possibly want in its downtown like groceries, drugstores, coffee stores, floral, stores like Ross, Target, Marshall, TJ Max and others, movie theaters, San Pedro Sq. Market Place and so much more. Seattle doesn't have everything you need in a downtown core area like a nice grocery store. Everything is more spread out in Dt. Seattle. There's no major university downtown in Seattle. Is there a hardware store in Dt. Seattle? They may have one, but I didn't see one.
San Jose's downtown is nicely landscaped and is very green. The sidewalks are planted with flowers everywhere. They have nice pedestrian malls downtown. In Seattle, they seem to have forgotton those things. All they did is building towers with offices, housing, hotels and shops with no detail on street level. Proof is in the pudding. You guys should visit both downtowns and make a judgement on who's better. Eyes don't lie!
Krudmonk, I have check out both downtowns thoroughly, and I know what I'm talking about. If you feel Seattle is better than San Jose interms of dowtown, please move to Seattle. Dt. Seattle is not all that great except it has shopping and restaurants in the right place on 4-6th st. There are alot more hits and misses in Seattle and alot more gaps and dead spaces there. Just look at 5th st. next to Columbia tower, the hole in the middle across the street. San Jose's downtown doesn't have dead spaces or holes like that.
Brandonbrinegar, yep, that's the one that never got built and left as blight for the city. Build that tower or something to get rid of the hole in the city. Oh, 4 violence incidents in Dt. Seattle in the last 3 weeks: stabbing, shooting and beatings. Plus, there are more than I don't know about. In San Jose's downtown: none!
San Jose has a better downtown than Seattle because it's more user friendly and better thought and planned out. In Dt. Seattle, you still have some seediness to it: like a strip club, downtrodden area (around 3rd and Pine, where drug dealers hang out and beat up and mugg people), dirty alleys, and lots of homeless people.
San Jose has almost no seedy, if not none, in the downtown area. There have been 0 homicide in Dt. SJ in the last 3 years, while Dt.Seattle has quite a few in months. San Jose has a relative peaceful downtown and Seattle has a violent downtown. They're alot fewer homeless people in Dt. San Jose than Seattle's.
Downtown San Jose has all the things you can possibly want in its downtown like groceries, drugstores, coffee stores, floral, stores like Ross, Target, Marshall, TJ Max and others, movie theaters, San Pedro Sq. Market Place and so much more. Seattle doesn't have everything you need in a downtown core area like a nice grocery store. Everything is more spread out in Dt. Seattle. There's no major university downtown in Seattle. Is there a hardware store in Dt. Seattle? They may have one, but I didn't see one.
San Jose's downtown is nicely landscaped and is very green. The sidewalks are planted with flowers everywhere. They have nice pedestrian malls downtown. In Seattle, they seem to have forgotton those things. All they did is building towers with offices, housing, hotels and shops with no detail on street level. Proof is in the pudding. You guys should visit both downtowns and make a judgement on who's better. Eyes don't lie!
San Jose's downtown SUCKS. I wouldn't care if Downtown SJ sucked if they had anything to do in any other part of the city but as a whole San Jose is a terribly boring and banal place. Yuck.
People in Seattle kill themselves at a higher rate than most places. Sounds really happy. I think you should move there.
And yet another urban myth. Seattle ranks about 25 nationally. We're talking major cities here.
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