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Old 01-31-2019, 03:48 PM
 
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Horton Plaza is much better than downtown San Jose.
Downtown San Diego is sucks now as it did back in 1978, nothing changed shockingly
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Old 01-31-2019, 05:12 PM
 
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Horton Plaza is much better than downtown San Jose.
Ohhh, I love my city, but you probably haven't been there in a few years. It's mostly boarded up and populated by homeless. Most stores are gone. It's being redeveloped into tech office space with new highrise additions and also a food hall. Will be great when complete. It ran its course, and it served its purpose. Time to move on. Kinda sad, but time moves forward.
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Old 01-31-2019, 05:17 PM
 
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Downtown San Diego is sucks now as it did back in 1978, nothing changed shockingly
This is possibly the most ridiculous opinion I've ever read on City Data. Ever. 100 percent of people would disagree with it.
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Old 01-31-2019, 08:03 PM
 
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^ it's hard to top the topper
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Old 01-31-2019, 08:32 PM
 
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This is possibly the most ridiculous opinion I've ever read on City Data. Ever. 100 percent of people would disagree with it.
What's the difference? Bad: boarded up shops, homeless people, quiet, some abandoned buildings, no focal point. These are the bad points of then and now.

Good: Plenty of high rises, some pockets of activity( Seaport Village with very cheap lobsters in 1978, and new improved Gaslamp of today, though losing its customers to North Park and Pacific Beach), and lastly nice waterfront.

Advantage 1978: lots and lots of very cheap housing with more planned for all incomes, more historical with more historical buildings had yet to be demolished, plenty of cheap motels, easier access to Balboa Park, quaint and friendly

Advantage today: bigger skyline, even though the skyline was impressive in 1978, convention center, Little Italy spruced up and Ballpark.

Back to the drawing board for Downtown SD just like 1978
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Old 01-31-2019, 10:24 PM
 
Location: Hookerville, formerly in Tweakerville
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The troll arises again.
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Old 01-31-2019, 11:39 PM
 
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^ it's hard to top the topper
^ it's hard to be a saint in the city
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Old 02-01-2019, 12:00 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Ohhh, I love my city, but you probably haven't been there in a few years. It's mostly boarded up and populated by homeless. Most stores are gone. It's being redeveloped into tech office space with new highrise additions and also a food hall. Will be great when complete. It ran its course, and it served its purpose. Time to move on. Kinda sad, but time moves forward.
The joke. You missed it.

Topper is well know for trolling about how San Jose has THE BEST downtown of any city in the world. And San Diego is often his target of comparison to his vaulted San Jose.

You couldn't pay me to live in San Jose...
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Old 02-01-2019, 12:59 PM
 
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You couldn't pay me to live in San Jose...[/QUOTE]

One would need to pay you as housing costs are double in SJ vs SD, EliotAxxelrod
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Old 02-02-2019, 06:17 PM
 
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Maybe Topper should make another city comparison poll so everyone can remind him that they prefer downtown Toledo, OH to downtown San Jose...
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