I KNOW it. 🙂
San Jose, California is poor cousin to San Francisco. But I love the place.
San Jose is the largest city within Silicon Valley …
… 300+ days of sunshine and an average daily high temperature of 73 °F (23 °C) …
The weather is often excellent even when it’s raining in San Francisco.
It’s the home of Adobe, Cisco Systems, eBay and many other high tech leaders.
Google and Apple are nearby.
Yet it’s kept quite rustic. … Or perhaps that’s the lack of tax money for maintenance. Stockton, California just announced they were insolvent, becoming the largest city in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy.
There are many outdoors-men like myself who’ve settled here. A few are quite entrepreneurial.
Some like to sing. Or talk. … To themselves. Non-stop.
… San Jose lies between the San Andreas Fault … and the Calaveras Fault. San Jose is shaken by moderate earthquakes, above four on the Richter Scale, on average of one to two times a year. …
From here I’m headed to Woodward West Gymnastics Camp.
Rick McCharles 
“Rustic” — heh heh. 🙂
Regarding Stockton — that city is absolutely dependent on new development and the income that brings in through fees. It’s a pyramid scheme that never could be sustainable. Although San Jose also took income through development, it’s revenue base is much more diverse. The development cash cow stopped delivering in 2008 so the city has had to cut back significantly, but it’s not headed to insolvency like the ex-urban cities are.