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I guess shows like Fringe, V, Pitfall, Poltergeist, The Outer Limits, MacGyver, 21 Jump Street, X-Files, Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman, Sliders, and Dark Angel are all obscure syndicated shows that nobody ever heard of or watched, right?
And I guess movies like Tron Legacy, The 6th Day, The Butterfly Effect, Juno, Twilight:New Moon, Rambo, X-Men, and I-Robot are all B-Movies that nobody ever watched or heard of, right?
Let's see some pictures of this great downtown San Jose. We saw one pic of it's "skyline", but it looked like a lowrise suburban industrial park. Surely that wasn't the main skyline. Or was it?
Of Global Corporations? Ive already showed that. Still waiting for Vancouver's.
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Let's see some pictures of this great downtown San Jose. We saw one pic of it's "skyline", but it looked like a lowrise suburban industrial park. Surely that wasn't the main skyline. Or was it?
What really struck me in looking at all those fab Vancouver skyline pics is that nothing really important happens in them.
Heck, as far as value to the world economy, San Jose's office parks play a much bigger role in global economics.
Let's see some pictures of this great downtown San Jose. We saw one pic of it's "skyline", but it looked like a lowrise suburban industrial park. Surely that wasn't the main skyline. Or was it?
Is the skyline equivalent to how nice the city is or something? There's a whole lot of examples of american cities with better skylines than San Jose that NO ONE would argue are nicer. Seriously, why does this matter to you? I mean other than that it assuages your superiority complex. Newsflash: the fact that you had to pit Vancouver against the Bay Area's second/third city says a lot. No one from the Bay ever said that San Jose is the most amazing city in the Bay... that would be San Francisco. What we DO say is that it's impressive that the Bay has three major cities that are very interconnected. What does Vancouver have other than Vancouver? A lot of the appeal of living somewhere like San Jose (and in the rest of the Bay Area for that matter) is living somewhere nice that's within close proximity to one of the world's greatest cities. What competition does the Vancouver area offer? Nothing. If you have to make yourself feel better by comparing Vancouver to (of all cities) San Jose then that's pretty damn pathetic.
Is the skyline equivalent to how nice the city is or something? There's a whole lot of examples of american cities with better skylines than San Jose that NO ONE would argue are nicer. Seriously, why does this matter to you? I mean other than that it assuages your superiority complex. Newsflash: the fact that you had to pit Vancouver against the Bay Area's second/third city says a lot. No one from the Bay ever said that San Jose is the most amazing city in the Bay... that would be San Francisco. What we DO say is that it's impressive that the Bay has three major cities that are very interconnected. What does Vancouver have other than Vancouver? A lot of the appeal of living somewhere like San Jose (and in the rest of the Bay Area for that matter) is living somewhere nice that's within close proximity to one of the world's greatest cities. What competition does the Vancouver area offer? Nothing. If you have to make yourself feel better by comparing Vancouver to (of all cities) San Jose then that's pretty damn pathetic.
/reality check
Vancouver ranks as the highest quality of life in all of the Americas, over San Francisco, Honolulu, New York, etc. That is how.
Now, comparing Vancouver, and isolating San Jose alone out of a solidified metro is an entirely different story. Having sideline people bashing or making off the cuff comments, is also another story, and shouldn't sway anybody's comparison. Nor is whatever possible motives think the OP has, whether he does or doesn't, will not mess up the thread (the better comparison would of course be to SF itself, but it isn't in this case, for whatever reason). But people isolate parts of New York City too all the time to compare to other metros, and on down the line. People isolate Oakland and San Francisco all the time too. It isn't like this is a novel idea for a thread. Sometimes one of them is going to lose, it isn't anything bad about San Jose, it is just appreciating how good Vancouver is. They are isolated for the sake of comparison, i.e. living in the cities, and the quality of the cities as an end in themselves. You could bring it out to Bay Area, Northern California, California if that is the "reality" people are posturing, but isn't the comparison. Why not just make a NorCal vs BC thread, if that is what people are going to argue about. If people are going to make a fool of themselves for starting an off base thread, just let them do it, arguing against them only makes them feel validated.
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