10 things I won't miss about SV (San Jose, Fremont: sales, real estate, new home)

[mysticaltyger]

I really know what you are talking about with #4..body odor (or bad breath). I really wish those who eat a lot of spicy / garlicky foods would give the rest of us a break! I just got out of an elevator that absolutely REEKED of garlic, and I do NOT have a good sense of smell.

[sonarrat]

Originally Posted by mysticaltyger

I really know what you are talking about with #4..body odor (or bad breath). I really wish those who eat a lot of spicy / garlicky foods would give the rest of us a break! I just got out of an elevator that absolutely REEKED of garlic, and I do NOT have a good sense of smell.

Sounds like someone hit the Gilroy Garlic Festival a bit too hard yesterday.

[Katimae]

you don't even have to to to the garlic festival... I think everywhere in the bay area serves garlic fries at the least. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if everything wasn't so totally overcrowded, but when you are crammed up against someone with horrible BO it's even more annoying.

[treedonkey]

Originally Posted by Katimae

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if everything wasn't so totally overcrowded

Yes, after thinking about it for a while, I realized that overcrowdedness (seperate from traffic) should have been pretty high on my original list of ten. I mean if I want to go hiking close by (Ranch San Antonio being most notorious) i have to search all three lots and wait in line just to park. Lame.

So maybe, in order, the things I MOST won't miss are:
1) Housing Prices
2) Traffic/Drivers
3) Overcrowdedness (separate from traffic)
4) Impersonal/Bad Manners (mostly due to #3)
5) Strange odors
6) The weather (it STILL hasn't rained here since, what, 2005? (And my neighbor was spraying down his whole driveway last weekend))

[AA702]

Originally Posted by treedonkey

Yes, after thinking about it for a while, I realized that overcrowdedness (seperate from traffic) should have been pretty high on my original list of ten. I mean if I want to go hiking close by (Ranch San Antonio being most notorious) i have to search all three lots and wait in line just to park. Lame.

So maybe, in order, the things I MOST won't miss are:
1) Housing Prices
2) Traffic/Drivers
3) Overcrowdedness (separate from traffic)
4) Impersonal/Bad Manners (mostly due to #3)
5) Strange odors
6) The weather (it STILL hasn't rained here since, what, 2005? (And my neighbor was spraying down his whole driveway last weekend))

Its a drought on the entire west coast. San Jose gets pretty good rainfall on a normal year. Just be thankfull its not the El Nino years, where it will rain for weeks and be more like the weather patern of the Pac NW. I hated the rain when it would rain for weeks at a time. You still cannot beat the overall weather of San Jose.

[treedonkey]

Originally Posted by AA702

Its a drought on the entire west coast. San Jose gets pretty good rainfall on a normal year. Just be thankfull its not the El Nino years, where it will rain for weeks and be more like the weather patern of the Pac NW. I hated the rain when it would rain for weeks at a time. You still cannot beat the overall weather of San Jose.

I love it when people get bugged by what I won't miss.

[AA702]

Originally Posted by treedonkey

I love it when people get bugged by what I won't miss.

i'm not bugged at all.. i moved out of SV in 2003. I was also tired of it. I am just saying that your perception on "no rain" is because we are in a drought. Unless your from a city with lots of rainfall and your comparing it to that. San Jose gets its fair share of rain on a "normal year". But the last few years have been far from normal. I live in the desert, and we are lucky to get an inch of rain a year.

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by treedonkey

I love it when people get bugged by what I won't miss.

So you were just trolling or what?

[MichaelinWA]

I agree with that. Aside from the drought, which will eventually go away - hopefully soon - weather really doesn't belong on any rational list of what's bad about SV. The mild Mediterranean climate is one of the better ones around, overall.

Originally Posted by AA702

i'm not bugged at all.. i moved out of SV in 2003. I was also tired of it. I am just saying that your perception on "no rain" is because we are in a drought. Unless your from a city with lots of rainfall and your comparing it to that. San Jose gets its fair share of rain on a "normal year". But the last few years have been far from normal. I live in the desert, and we are lucky to get an inch of rain a year.

[treedonkey]

Originally Posted by AA702

i'm not bugged at all.. i moved out of SV in 2003. I was also tired of it. I am just saying that your perception on "no rain" is because we are in a drought. Unless your from a city with lots of rainfall and your comparing it to that. San Jose gets its fair share of rain on a "normal year". But the last few years have been far from normal. I live in the desert, and we are lucky to get an inch of rain a year.

Alright, I stand corrected then. it sounded like you were telling me why I should not miss the weather, like the previous commenter that said I shouldn't miss earthquakes. Thanks for letting me know we're in a drought, though. I noticed that. I'm just saying that I, personally, won't miss the weather because I prefer seasonal changes and plenty of rain. I'm not telling anyone else how they should feel though. Most people prefer copious sunshine, which is understandable.

And, no I'm not trolling here, read my history if you want. But comments like 'you were trolling' are really a little trollsome themselves.