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Old 12-31-2015, 01:11 AM
 
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I would bet big that in 20 or even 10 years, San Jose looks a lot more socially vibrant with much more entertainment. Big players are placing bets now. Apple, for example, will be building big in the city. There is a lot of mixed use dense development planned in the downtown areas, like North SJ, Diridon area, etc. There will be more development in the Santana Row area as welll - the row might feel like a "real" city neighborhood in time.
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Old 12-31-2015, 01:29 AM
 
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Because in reality it isn't a big city. It's just "big" because it annexed a huge area. It's really 20 or so suburbs. The downtown is smaller and less vibrant than some cities of 100k.

The "big city" is 50 miles north.
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Old 12-31-2015, 01:32 AM
 
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Similarly, there are almost no really vibrant areas within 50 miles of NYC
That definitely isn't true. Certain suburbs of NYC, like Stamford, or White Plains, or Norwalk, have much more vibrant cores than San Jose. There are probably like 50+ NYC suburbs with sizable, vibrant town centers (not just a main street).
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Old 12-31-2015, 03:21 AM
 
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Bigfork, Montana has a more art galleries than downtown San Jose... lol...
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Old 12-31-2015, 04:11 AM
 
Location: Anaheim
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This is as much a historical question as it is an urban cultural one. How did SJ come to be so big, yet so boring compared to other major cities? Its population dwarfs San Francisco's. Are there any other major cities (population-wise) in the U.S. that are comparably boring with San Jose?
It's amazing to me how we never explored the possibility of other equally "boring" major cities.

Perhaps there aren't any; perhaps what the OP describes as boring IS, indeed, San Jose's vibe.

I was fine with what I felt and saw the few times I have been there; that Target on the east side was a zoo, but....

We need to explore different flavors of "boring".
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Old 12-31-2015, 08:42 AM
 
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probably because people are too busy ekeing out a living to have *fun*.
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Old 12-31-2015, 01:01 PM
 
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Because in reality it isn't a big city. It's just "big" because it annexed a huge area. It's really 20 or so suburbs. The downtown is smaller and less vibrant than some cities of 100k.

The "big city" is 50 miles north.
Cool story bro Too bad. It is. Who cares if it got big because it annexed a huge area. It did it. And it's big. The reality is that it's 180 square miles and 1 million people. It's big. You just have to come to term with those facts
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Old 12-31-2015, 01:02 PM
 
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Bigfork, Montana has a more art galleries than downtown San Jose... lol...
All their galleries combined can fit into my bathroom

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Old 12-31-2015, 01:10 PM
 
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I would bet big that in 20 or even 10 years, San Jose looks a lot more socially vibrant with much more entertainment. Big players are placing bets now. Apple, for example, will be building big in the city. There is a lot of mixed use dense development planned in the downtown areas, like North SJ, Diridon area, etc. There will be more development in the Santana Row area as welll - the row might feel like a "real" city neighborhood in time.
Oh definitely. The fact that the city is no longer permitting low-density housing for the past 10 years is a great step forward. The Row area is going to need more office space and removal of all the used car dealers. Hopefully at some point we can deem an LRT line possible from Convention Center to the Row. I mean, we ran an LRT line down to Almaden and to me that was an absolute waste of money.

At the end of the day, as more and more people crowd into San Jose, it will transform itself by necessity. Many of the old guards with small-town mentality will die out, and the newer, more urban-minded San Jose people will eventually take over and bring this city to great heights

San Jose folks! Have faith! Our time is yet to come, and that's the beauty of living here. You're seeing the start of something big and good unfolding before our eyes within the next 10-20 years
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Old 12-31-2015, 01:25 PM
 
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No they don't bro, not even close. And 3 blocks is no big deal. What matters is what's going on in that 3 blocks. Peace.
Have you actually been to all of these 3? I have, as well as Santana Row. Santana Row is no match for the SouthPark area of Charlotte because it has 4 mixed-use developments within walking distance from one another on top of the SouthPark Mall. Birkdale Village is also larger than Santana Row, and Ayrsley alone is about the same size.

I took a day trip to SJ from SF because I was really interested in seeing it, so I'm not biased against SJ. I was just disappointed in what I saw. I did like SJSU's campus though. Charlotte has pretty much everything San Jose has (it has a few things SJ doesn't have and SJ has a few things CLT doesn't have), yet it is much, much cheaper.
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