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What exactly is "the grit"? The homeless people and crackheads?
by contergan 10y ago
What exactly is "the grit"? The homeless people and crackheads?
- jdpedrie 10y agoIt's like pornography. You know it when you see it.
- koolba 10y agoI'd argue it's the reverse, you know when it's lacking.
- bluedino 10y agoSan Jose is boring, cookie-cutter suburbia.
- Reason077 10y agoRight. Nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit there. Unless it's for WWDC, of course!
- freehunter 10y agoAbandoned warehouses that are being renovated into office space, people who have struggled to get where they are today, success stories, personal loss and tragedy, you know, the human factor. A lot of people like places with "character", where character is defined as "not perfect". I've never been to San Jose so I can't comment on it, but I've been to Pittsburgh and Detroit. They have character. Those cites are more human than many actual humans I've met.
- kobeya 10y agoSan Jose has everything you describe. Literally next door to the train station is a block of almond factories converted into modern apartments. I wouldn't describe a place I've never been to... Edit: you aren't the GP, sorry.
- PascLeRasc 10y agoI totally agree. My partner just came back from a trip to SF and a lot of her colleagues (neurosci grad students) were really disdainful of her being from Pittsburgh, but we both really love it here. There's so much culture here that was hard to find in Boston for me or SF for her.
- 27182818284 10y ago>Abandoned warehouses...renovated into office space I can't read this and not get sad about Ghost Ship