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The bold is NOTHING to be proud about, instead it's an embrassment.
How is people from a city being bi-lingual an embarrassment?
Rednecks in N.O. speak French fluently. I really doubting that thugs in East NY or Brownsville can even speak 1 language fluently. English.
San Jose. It has to be the most boring "city" of 1 million people in the world.
Kind of an ignorant comment, really. It's true that San Jose has always lived in the shadow of San Francisco when it comes to culture and excitement, but to say that it is the "most boring city in the world" is an overstatement in the extreme. When I was growing up the area was still full of orchards and the downtown area was to be avoided, but that has all changed. Even the downtown area is very vibrant now, totally walkable, light rail system and loads of cafe's, coffee joints, restaurants of all varieties, nightclubs, etc. Loads of great events at the convention center. The Sharks are wildly popular and have a fantastic downtown arena.
I can tell you, as a Bay Area native, that people who live in San Jose are not bored - not in the least. Aside from the fact that San Jose is the hub of Silicon Valley and some of the leading technology companies in the world call the city home, the area has so much to offer that it has some of the highest housing values in the nation. The great advantage of living in the Bay Area, whether it's the South Bay, the Peninsula or the East Bay, is that it is one contiguous megalopolis.
You've got easy access to the foothills and the mountains, easy access to the beach, easy access to the wineries, world class entertainment, professional sports galore, fine dining, cool towns like Los Gatos, Saratoga, Willow Glen, and up the peninsula. San Francisco is only a 45 minute drive, Santa Cruz is about the same. Tahoe, Napa, Carmel are great weekend trips. The list of things to do are practically endless, and, oh yeah, the best weather in the country. Did I mention that the Niners are building a state of the art stadium down the street in Santa Clara? I could go on ad nauseum, but people in the Bay Area know what I'm talking about.
You can rip on San Jose all you want, but nobody who lives there is bored unless they never leave their home.
You want boring? Come to the South. Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, etc. are truly dull places. But, like they say, you don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.
San Antonio is one of the great towns of America. It has a great American/Mexican/Spanish culture and tradition. Always fun to go hang out there.
As to how it "feels". It feels like a big town, much like Ft Worth and Austin and for that matter San Jose. It has a nice downtown, but no super tall buildings or that real big corporate feel like Dallas or Houston. Definitely worth a trip if you havent been.
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