Basically, flyer makes a good point here about workers spending too many of their off-hours commuting to/from an area where the value isn’t really there (and never was to begin with, because it is agricultural).
Life IS short and that is too many hours to waste every day.
The reality is that a Patterson or Tracy homebuyer working in SV could have likely purchased a 50 year-old plain-jane, 1500-1600 sf 3-bdrm cosmetic fixer tract home in a much closer-in Alameda County city for the same money they spent on a slapped-together “mcmansion” in Podunk Farmville with 100+ degree heat more than half the year and been home every night ~20 minutes after crossing a bridge. But they chose not to.
I don’t want to hear any school arguments either as the Fremont Unified School District is great! As are the further-out Dublin and Pleasanton Unified School Districts (of which I am a product).
I received an excellent elementary education but I’m so old that elementary was K-8 back then, not K-5 or K-6 as it is now, lol . . . Dublin was out in the stix back then and NOT surrounded by interstate highways.
The “Tri-Valley Area” (Dublin, Pleasanton and San Ramon) has always been a cheaper alternative for families of Oakland and Walnut Creek workers (financial and insurance centers). With this area now being the epicenter of the I-580/I-680 Jct, it can now truly be called a “hub” in the center of town.
I wonder how long it takes this train to make the nine stops from Stockton to San Jose every day? And vice versa.
There is no excuse whatsoever to live in farmville if you work in the bay area. The two regions are night and day from one another. That’s just crazy stupid and unwise.
