[quote=The-Shoveler]Out by Tracy (to the east) then Stockton to the north etc..
to the south I am not sure the towns current name(s) but I know co-workers to bought new homes to the south (not cheap by the way)
They are not great areas currently but I bet they improve quickly.[/quote]
Shoveler, Tracy and Stockton are NOT anywhere near SJ (Santa Clara County). Not by a long shot. They are not even located in the bay area! They are in San Joaquin County, within the states’ interior “Central Valley.” The City of Stockton has filed for BK protection in recent years, all due to allowing too many subdivisons to be built during the ’00’s and being unable to adequately service them with city services (incl police and fire).
To the south of Stockton and Tracy is Turlock, Modesto and Patterson, situated in Stanislaus County (also located in the state’s “Central Valley,” which boasts mostly of lower-paying agricultural and warehousing jobs).
Uhhh, if workers are actually commuting daily to/from SM and SC counties to higher-paying tech/biotech jobs from these remote locales, they all have some screws loose and need their heads examined, IMO.
I can’t imagine in my wildest dreams that the Stockton City Council has recently approved more subdivision permits after all the BS they have gone through in recent years! At one point, they actually had to subcontract out more than half of the city services that they were supposed to provide to Lodi and other adjacent cities and the county because they themselves could not provide them to their burgeoning population … nor could they even pay for some of them.
