On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:25:18 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>On 2009-08-28, sf > wrote:
>
>><smile> I wouldn't call Silicon Valley "deserted", but it's quieter.
>
>Are you trying to tell me there are still businesses in SV proper?
>From Milpitas and hwy 880 West to 85 and from hwy 237 South to ECR?
>3Com, National Semiconductor, AMAT, Apple, Sun, HP, IBM? No freakin
>way! Last time I was there, not a single business I delt with, other
>than my own company, remained. Even my company had shrunk from 18
>huge campuses to 2, both ghosts of their former self. Every campus
>for 5 miles in every direction was also deserted. The Central Frwy
>was deserted. No restaurants, no vendors, no support business, nada.
>Whole brand new campuses built in '98 still stand vacant, never having
>been occupied to this very day. You can drive down a dozen boulevards
>in that area and not see one single company campuse occupied. Smaller
>business parks shuttered and deserted. No, it's beyond quiet. It's a
>cemetery.
>
That's not my experience, but I can ask DD who works in Mountain View
and lives in San Jose if you want the inside dirt. I know cities have
a lot of empty store fronts and a lot is area specific. Burlingame is
a big example of that.


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