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Old 09-16-2016, 01:11 AM
 
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California
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I currently live in Concord. Is it just me or does San Jose feel like a really stretched out version of Concord? I was walking around the city and they look indistinguishable. Demographically they felt similar too.
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Old 09-16-2016, 02:13 AM
 
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San Jose has a much bigger Vietnamese and Asian influence in general, it also appears to have a lot more wealth than Concord.
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Old 09-16-2016, 09:51 AM
 
Location: Pleasanton, CA
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I currently live in Concord. Is it just me or does San Jose feel like a really stretched out version of Concord? I was walking around the city and they look indistinguishable. Demographically they felt similar too.
Um, no. They don't feel similar to me. San Jose is a huge city, so chances are you only saw a very small portion of the city and assumed the entire place looks all the same. The entire South Bay in general is mostly suburban with shopping centers, malls and office parks mixed in. The same could be said for many CA cities in northern and southern CA. Just about any city in CA that was mostly built up in the last 40-50 years is going to have a very similar car-centric suburban layout. This is nothing unique to San Jose or Concord.

Chances are you didn't see any of these SJ neighborhoods below, which in my opinion look absolutely nothing like Concord:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sa...4d-121.8863286

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3336...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2200...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4146...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3958...!7i4480!8i1574

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Old 09-16-2016, 01:37 PM
 
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California
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Um, no. They don't feel similar to me. San Jose is a huge city, so chances are you only saw a very small portion of the city and assumed the entire place looks all the same. The entire South Bay in general is mostly suburban with shopping centers, malls and office parks mixed in. The same could be said for many CA cities in northern and southern CA. Just about any city in CA that was mostly built up in the last 40-50 years is going to have a very similar car-centric suburban layout. This is nothing unique to San Jose or Concord.

Chances are you didn't see any of these SJ neighborhoods below, which in my opinion look absolutely nothing like Concord:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sa...4d-121.8863286

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3336...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2200...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4146...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3958...!7i4480!8i1574
That's fair, I guess Concord looks like East San Jose.
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Old 09-16-2016, 02:08 PM
 
Location: San Jose, CA
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That's fair, I guess Concord looks like East San Jose.

Two of those links are in East San Jose.


The city is enormous. It can take an hour to drive from one side to the other on surface streets or during peak hours on the freeways. Some of the neighborhoods are more compact and dense, some are sprawled. Some are flat, some are hilly. Some have creeks and rivers and lakes. You'll see black-tailed deer at the outskirts on one side of town, elk on the other. There are horse properties and cattle ranches as well as high-tech giants and industrial parks. Incomes range from low to extremely high and the demographics are mixed, though there is not a large black population anywhere in the city.
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Old 09-16-2016, 02:16 PM
 
Location: Pleasanton, CA
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That's fair, I guess Concord looks like East San Jose.
That is probably a somewhat fair assessment. East SJ is historically the "bad" part of town. The further south and east you head, especially into the foothills, the nicer it gets. Overall though, the poorest and most run-down crime-ridden neighborhoods are on the East Side. (basically east of downtown to slightly east of White Rd.)
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Old 09-16-2016, 02:47 PM
 
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California
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That is probably a somewhat fair assessment. East SJ is historically the "bad" part of town. The further south and east you head, especially into the foothills, the nicer it gets. Overall though, the poorest and most run-down crime-ridden neighborhoods are on the East Side. (basically east of downtown to slightly east of White Rd.)
It didn't feel particularly dangerous...
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Old 09-16-2016, 04:10 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley
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Well, there are no old Victorian neighborhoods in Concord, that I recall... I guess some of it looks similar.
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Old 09-16-2016, 04:48 PM
 
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California
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Well, there are no old Victorian neighborhoods in Concord, that I recall... I guess some of it looks similar.
There are a few downtown, but not many.
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Old 09-16-2016, 07:58 PM
 
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Those are some pretty intense McMansions there
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