What is with San Jose, CA?

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by duffdog

If you live where there is traffic to get where you need to go, you are by strict definition, not in a good neighborhood.

Must be very few good neighborhoods anywhere in the Bay Area, by that definition.

[Wintermomma]

Originally Posted by bigdumbgod

Are we speaking of Burbank in the 80/90's? Different story these days. Only dumpy on one or two streets where the sketchy apartments are. Everybody is finding out about this place and swooping up every house on the market, which are typically pushing $600k now, and that's often before major refurbs. We might still have the Pink Poodle...but now there's a BMW motorcycle shop on the corner next door. Time's-a-changin' (Time Deli across the street ain't changin' much, though...still quite good).

I am often in this area and Bascom north of 280 before Stevens Creek and it is so very seedy looking (the retail/commercial space, not homes). I just don't understand it when looking at the cost of the houses. There's what looks like it used to be a theater with permanent graffiti on it, despite somehow being occupied by a swim school (I will admit to great curiosity how they put a pool in a theater building but wouldn't feel safe signing my kids up in that area). Blech. Is this considered Burbank? I agree there are many good things about the area, but to have a main street be so dumpy, and left that way, is baffling to me.

Where do all our taxes go!? The size and volume of the graffiti that pops up overnight in this area (particularly under the highway bridges) makes me think they don't have patrol cars going through EVER.

[JohnSoCal]

There have been 11 homicides in the first 4 months of this year according to the news. That is an average of 33 for the whole year. That is very low for a city the size of San Jose. San Diego and San Jose are 2 of the safest large cities in the country.

[silverkris]

Originally Posted by Wintermomma

I am often in this area and Bascom north of 280 before Stevens Creek and it is so very seedy looking (the retail/commercial space, not homes). I just don't understand it when looking at the cost of the houses. There's what looks like it used to be a theater with permanent graffiti on it, despite somehow being occupied by a swim school (I will admit to great curiosity how they put a pool in a theater building but wouldn't feel safe signing my kids up in that area). Blech. Is this considered Burbank? I agree there are many good things about the area, but to have a main street be so dumpy, and left that way, is baffling to me.

Where do all our taxes go!? The size and volume of the graffiti that pops up overnight in this area (particularly under the highway bridges) makes me think they don't have patrol cars going through EVER.

That area is unincorporated, so the county is responsible for public works and services. That might account for the condition of the pavement. I think that's also why the Pink Poodle is located there.

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by Wintermomma

I am often in this area and Bascom north of 280 before Stevens Creek and it is so very seedy looking (the retail/commercial space, not homes). I just don't understand it when looking at the cost of the houses. There's what looks like it used to be a theater with permanent graffiti on it, despite somehow being occupied by a swim school (I will admit to great curiosity how they put a pool in a theater building but wouldn't feel safe signing my kids up in that area). Blech. Is this considered Burbank? I agree there are many good things about the area, but to have a main street be so dumpy, and left that way, is baffling to me.

Where do all our taxes go!? The size and volume of the graffiti that pops up overnight in this area (particularly under the highway bridges) makes me think they don't have patrol cars going through EVER.

Burbank Theater is basically condemned, that's why it looks like that.