What San Jose is Really Like... (San Francisco, Orange: crimes, mortgages, weddings)

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by Carlite

It's two different density calculations. The population weighted density is meant to capture the densities surrounding people where they live, so it does exclude uninhabited lands. The Census Bureau calculates it from the densities of census tracts. The other density figure is people divided by land area. That number is alright if you want to get an average of how heavily the land is occupied. But because it includes a lot of uninhabited land, it understates the densities at which people actually live.

Thank you for the clarification. Do you have a link??? I would really like to see that info in detail.

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by bigdumbgod

It ain't a fifties white people, 2.4 children, white picket fence world anymore, especially not in SJ.

Actually, Huxley lifted the title from Shakespeare:

I agree with you on that one, then.

I didn't know he quoted Shakespeare...interesting. But his brave new world is a horror nonetheless, and much of it is come to pass (along with Orwell's).

[Billy Millennium]

Originally Posted by tempest411

This is an old thread...I agree mostly with the op except that I don't think San Jose is particularly clean. In fact, I think it's embarassingly dirty. Yes, there are plenty of places that are worse, but that's no excuse. I've vistied Hong Kong. That place, with far more people living much closer together is a LOT cleaner. They have plain clothes police officers that will hand you a $500.00 ticket for littering. We need that here.

I don't know what other U.S. cities you've visited, but to call San Jose "embarrassingly dirty" is ridiculous. Check out other big cities in this country and see how they compare; bet that opinion will change fast.

San Jose might be the most boring/nondescript city of its size in the country, but it's a very clean city. Seeing litter on the sidewalk/street is an exception, not the norm from what I've seen. Other cities it's far more prevalent and normal.

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by never-more

Still not enough. Talk to me again about how clean San Jose is when it's #2 in the WORLD.

It does pretty well for a place with a lot of homeless and low-income citizens. If you wish it would improve it's rankings, would you care to impart to us what part you're doing to help this?

[Carlite]

Here's the link for population weighted density data Population density profiles - People and Households - U.S. Census Bureau

[Radical347]

Originally Posted by bigdumbgod

America’s Top 5 Cleanest Cities



#2 San Jose, California
(San Benito and Santa Clara counties)

America's Top 5 Cleanest Cities | Reader's Digest

While I agree that San Jose is very clean, that same list had San Francisco as #5 which isn't correct. I wonder what they use to measure.

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by Billy Millennium

I don't know what other U.S. cities you've visited, but to call San Jose "embarrassingly dirty" is ridiculous. Check out other big cities in this country and see how they compare; bet that opinion will change fast.

San Jose might be the most boring/nondescript city of its size in the country, but it's a very clean city. Seeing litter on the sidewalk/street is an exception, not the norm from what I've seen. Other cities it's far more prevalent and normal.

Sometimes I wonder what planet people are from when they say stuff like SJ is very dirty. I either think they're trolling or they've never been anywhere outside the zip code they live in . Although I will concede parts of East SJ DO have a lot of litter. I have lived and worked over on that side of town and I was constantly picking up litter....but compared to other bad neighborhoods in other cities, it is still fairly livable.

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by Carlite

Here's the link for population weighted density data Population density profiles - People and Households - U.S. Census Bureau

Thank you!

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by tempest411

This is an old thread...I agree mostly with the op except that I don't think San Jose is particularly clean. In fact, I think it's embarassingly dirty. Yes, there are plenty of places that are worse, but that's no excuse. I've vistied Hong Kong. That place, with far more people living much closer together is a LOT cleaner. They have plain clothes police officers that will hand you a $500.00 ticket for littering. We need that here.

Yes, my bf went to Hong Kong and said the same thing....it's uber clean.

I don't know about $500 tickets, but $50 tickets would work for me.

[silverkris]

Originally Posted by mysticaltyger

Yes, my bf went to Hong Kong and said the same thing....it's uber clean.

I don't know about $500 tickets, but $50 tickets would work for me.

The fine for littering in Hong Kong is HK$1500, or about US$194.