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                                             March 08, 2021

A fellow at the reddit "bayarea" group comments on
the sad state of San Jose's loss of "soul".
San Jose is beyond my range of knowledge, but
it sounds like a familiar story to me...

Quoting his remark in full:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/m04ug3/an_optimistic_vision_of_bart_in_the_2030s/gq6vl7a/

LocalInactivist wrote:

    "It kinda sucks with a tech job, too.
    There’s not much to do here and the soul
    has been leeched out of the place. In the
    late 1990s it had an eerie cookie-cutter
    vibe. There was a very specific design for
    corner strip malls that kept repeating,
    always with at least four of the stores being
    from a set of seven franchises. It was like
    they were being pre-fabbed in Mexico and
    dropped into place."

    "Since then it’s become even more generic
    and the funky parts have been dying off.
    Hobee’s, the Mini-Gourmet, and Psycho
    Donuts remain, Henry’s Hi-Life (beneath the
    Guadalupe Parkway next to the burned-out
    crack houses) still makes a hell of a steak,
    but it’s harder and harder to find places          It's unusal
    with soul. Flames Diner is gone, Century 21-       hearing from this
    25 (the domes) are gone, and the hole-in-the-      perspective in a
    wall Mexican places that served magic in a         reddit group,
    tortilla are harder and harder to find."           where brigades of
                                                       karenism is more
    "25 years ago the funk was dying. Now it’s         common.
    dead. It’s kids have sold the house and
    moved to Bend, Oregon to start anew."



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