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[quote=flu][quote=The-Shoveler]They got an office in Irvine, Heck that would actually work for me LOL.[/quote]

I tried the commute since I have to go there sometimes. It sucks, even from north county. especially on a friday..

Google did indicate they have a commuter van from San Diego to Irvine. I guess you can also take the coaster.

Amazon is up there too.[/quote]

I go out of John Wayne airport SNA a lot, it is a lot easier than going to San Diego Airport in the morning.
Not too bad but I don’t mind driving (well most times).

[The-Shoveler]

They got an office in Irvine, Heck that would actually work for me LOL.

[The-Shoveler]

Whatever, everything seems to be very close together there, I say San Jose because that is where I land but it only takes about 15 minutes and your in Sunnyvale or Cupertino or where ever.

What ever floats your boat in the real world not everyone lives walking distance to everything.

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I was looking for the lower price new homes (sprawl I guess), they seem to be going up towards the north east areas, I do have a co-worker that lives in a new home (I need to ask him the community again) towards the south of San Jose (he has to drive about an hour or more to get to work), but it is a very nice home and he paid quite a bit for it (over a mil).

It seems a lot more expensive towards the south.

People do commute in SV.

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=The-Shoveler] . . . San Jose has been considering BK for the last 10 years off an on BTW.[/quote]

What’s SJ’s problem? Could it possibly be that they, too, have fallen prey to Big Development’s bribes to approve too many subd permits in their fair city and now cannot provide services to all their *new* population??[/quote]

In the case of SJ I think it is quite the opposite
Not enough new development (and MR).

Like I said if you got money your not going to live there BUT people are moving there and they do commute to SV.

I would not necessarily move there if I worked in SV, but people are doing it so it is sprawl and it will continue.

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I was in Tracy last year, yea right now it is kind of undeveloped, But I think it will grow fast and be a lot nicer place to live give it 10 years.
It’s not about which city or county name LOL.

it’s about building a new city.

San Jose has been considering BK for the last 10 years off an on BTW.

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I have been there, not during rush hour, but my point is sprawl is happening and will happen.

Yea if you have money your not going to live there true, but lots of people with money do spend 90 minutes on the road one way almost every day who work in San Jose, I know and work with some of them.

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I don’t know, I get into San jose Airport and it’s like 10-15 minutes to Juniper or Cisco, broadcom etc…
maybe 20 minutes to Apple

Tracy has quite a few new tract homes going up, that seems to be close to 1 hour away.

(probable closer by about 20 minutes to cisco).

http://www.newhomesource.com/communityresults/market-40/citynamefilter-tracy#utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=new%2Bhomes%2Bin%2Btracy%2Bca&utm_content=40&utm_campaign=/UI/Stockton-Lodi_CA%3E40%3ESX%3EUS%3ECity_GPPC200&refer=GPPC200

[The-Shoveler]

Sprawl happens, get used to it.
It is even happening is San Jose area like it or not just look to the north, east, and south, new tract homes going up all over.

We just need to do a much better Job at mass-transit.
And I am not talking about that stupid high speed rail project. I am talking metro lines.

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I did a quick search there are actually quite a few new single family homes going up within 1 to 1.5 hours commute from San Jose for under 500K but not sure about the hood.

Hey if google employee’s ride a bus 90 minutes (just saying).

Yea it’s probably about commute time and schools plus further from the Ocean and SF.

Having been to SF quite a few times, I still don’t see the draw. I guess to each their own.

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I was hearing that they were building new tract homes for around 500K to the north/east of San Jose area (not sure about what the schools would look like).

It’s kind of funny a lot google employees live in SF but have to hop on a bus for 90 Minutes to get to work at the google facility.

Yea I really don’t get it,

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I was talking to a colleague in the NY/NJ area and he was saying a good percentage of Wall-street workers live in the burb’s some even in NJ.

They have much better train service from the burb’s to the city than we have on the west coast.

Also most of our work is NOT downtown on the west coast so that maybe why.

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That is the biggest complaint I hear from bay area workers, retirees don’t move!!
You do not hear that as much in LA or SD but there is a lot of I am staying until they carry me out here as well.

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[quote=flu][quote=Hobie]Thats why you see a lot of grey in senior management :)[/quote]

Unless you happen to be one of the idiots that insisted on staying technical hands on throughout your career :)[/quote]

That’s me LOL…

Hey I am still employed in the Tech field while more than a few buddies who went the management route are not.

I think in defense or a very large company Management may be a safer route (for staying employed at that company) but for small or mid size firms, the main thing is results and earnings and who can help you get more earnings.

In a very large code base it takes about a year to come up to speed, if someone is producing on that system, you don’t get rid of them easily.

Small systems (That did not take 10 or more years to develop) maybe it is a little easier.

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I keep seeing articles saying Software engineer is going to be one of the most in demand jobs for decades to come.

Most code is still written in “C” (well on Linux based systems anyway).

Cobol programmers are still in demand LOL.

Keep your hands elbows deep in the code my friends.

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