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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 09:28 PM
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i make my move to San Jose in 10 days
Edited on Sat Aug-22-09 09:29 PM by KamaAina
can't wait to hit the Big.... um, Motherboard?? :shrug:

edit: did the NYC thing a decade ago. Mom's still up there.
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 09:57 PM
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1. Do you know the way?
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 10:10 PM
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2. Welcome to California! San Jose is awesome,,, n/t
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 10:25 PM
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3. My dear KamaAina!
How exciting! I'm so happy for you!

Happy Landing, sweetie...

:hug:
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 10:59 PM
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4. Welcome back.
Maybe we can herd the SF area cats together for a meetup this fall to celebrate!
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DeepBlueC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 12:39 PM
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5. don't forget to pick up a copy of Obama's birth certificate
Edited on Sun Aug-23-09 12:39 PM by DeepBlueC
before you leave. I've heard there is some interest in it.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 01:46 PM
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8. But I have a direct flight!
I won't be changing planes in Mombasa! :P
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 01:01 PM
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6. Welcome! Where are you coming from?
Where will you be living?

I've been living in downtown S.J. for about 12 years now. If you have any questions or need any help, pm me.

If you are a foodie you're gonna love it here. You can get just about anything from any part of the world or any ethnic cuisine you can think of.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 01:49 PM
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9. That'd be Honolulu, hence the name
which will follow me up there like the shag of a dead animal. :eyes:

I did score a nice plate of Indian lamb curry downtowm while I was up there for the interview last month.

I have an extended-stay hotel out by the airport (and work) for the first two months at least. Work wishes to move closer into town at some point in the near future, so I figure I'll find a real place once I know where I'll be going.

Figures. You're the third SJ-area DUer I've encountered so far -- all male. FAIL. :(
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:30 PM
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12. Sorry, but a sex change is just not in my immediate plans
BTW, the airport is pretty much downtown. You could walk to it from city hall.
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 10:16 PM
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14. I'm in the 'burbs (Silicon Valley) and female
...and married. You wouldn't want me, anyway. Welcome to the area!
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 10:56 PM
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16. D'oh!
:banghead:

:hi:
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:54 PM
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17. Trust me - you aren't missing out!
Just take my word for it!

I do grow orchids, though, so if you miss the islands too much, I can hook you up with the local orchid scene!
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 01:09 PM
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7. Cool
If you fly into the San Jose airport, they might have this little ball contraption. Used to love watching it as a kid.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 03:30 PM
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10. san jose rocks
Edited on Sun Aug-23-09 03:30 PM by Parche
:woohoo:
:hug: :hug: :loveya:
best of luck!!!
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 05:50 PM
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11. I hope your move goes well.
:)

What brings you to San Jose? :shrug:

I have family there. It's a nice area. It seems like a very expensive place to live though, and it seems like you absolutely need a car to get anywhere. Not much of a pedestrian environment anywhere that I saw.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:36 PM
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13. new job?


:hi: Best of luck with the move.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 10:55 PM
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15. Yup.
Actually, similar to the previous one, except the center up there isn't a backbiting hellhole. :eyes:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:32 PM
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18. nope, back-biting hellholes are not good.


Best to you!
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:34 PM
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19. Well you are several thousand miles closer to me anyway..
;) One of these days I'm gonna get out there. I would love to visit the SF area...Creekdog and Gormy Cuss beware! :P
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:36 PM
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21. You know I tried to get at least two jobs in DC
:(

hint: the Bay Area is a major center for biotechnology, etc., though most of the action is a way up 101 from me. :loveya:
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:42 PM
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23. My company actually has labs
In both Mountain View and Heyward. Not too far from there I think.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:44 PM
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24. Mountain View is in our service area and has a light rail connection to SJ.
So who needs the Red Line? :shrug:
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 05:59 PM
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25. MTV is a cool town
That's why I live there.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:12 PM
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26. It certainly seemed like it when I had a 45-minute layover on my way up to The City
right across from the train station is a sweet little cafe/bakery which, on a Saturday morning, was just about filled with people getting their Bay on.

But why call it "MTV"? The cable channel stopped being cool, what, twenty years ago? :shrug:
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 01:05 AM
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28. You wouldn't like California.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:37 PM
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20. What the . . .
I am surely missing some info. That is, if you've been talking about the move here. Is this a good thing?
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:38 PM
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22. Well, at least I won't be working in The Center That Time Forgot
the place has been in Purgatory for a full year and a half, since its director was hounded clear off the island (and I do mean "hounded", as she has a yellow Lab service dog :-) )

And if one must live on the North American continent, the Bay Area is clearly the place in which to do so.
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:15 PM
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27. L.A. Is A Great Big Freeway
Put a $100 down and buy a car.

In a week maybe two, they'll make you a star.
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