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   dorpus, 3 Oct 2003 @ 12:10am

   
   

   The Tracy crowd

   During the dot-com boom when middle-aged, middle-class programmers decided to buy their homes in places like Tracy or Livermore, they assumed that high-tech jobs would follow them there. That turned out not to be true, so now they get to spend 4 hours a day commuting to valley jobs.
   

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   haruspex, 3 Oct 2003 @ 7:33am

   
   

   what do have against haruspices?

   It's not quite trying to divining the future from animal entrails

   Why are you mocking my job? It's a perfectly respectable profession.

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   Not a dot commer (but close), 3 Oct 2003 @ 9:50am

   
   

   San Jose unemployment rates

   Check this out http://www.venturi-staffing.com/ui/san_jose_city.shtml
   
   
   Among urban areas with a million or more people, San Jose and Portland, Ore., have the nation's highest unemployment rates
   
   And another one from last week http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/09/29/daily33.html
   

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   dorpus, 3 Oct 2003 @ 12:01pm

   
   

   The Newest Breed of White Trash

   Yeah, the Contra Costa species of white trash with college degrees, who live on the wrong side of the valley.
   
   Whatever happened to the homeless ex-software-engineer that made the headlines?
   

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   msykes, 3 Oct 2003 @ 3:29pm

   
   

   Traffic

   Traffic is back because of Ikea, and the construction on the 101-85 interchange, at least around the Menlo Park -> Mountain View region. It's got nothing to do with any jobs, just construction and shopping.
   
   msykes

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   Anonymous Coward, 5 Oct 2003 @ 12:45am

   
   

   unemployment == more traffic in the short run

   Here's the deal, with large populations of employed folks, you'll see three traffic spikes: one in the morning, one a lunch time and one for the return to your castle commute.
   
   With large populations of unemployed people, you'll see consistant heavy traffic as they all run around trying to fit as many possible interviews into their day.
   
   This will keep up through the first 8 to 10 months of the "jobless recovery". Once people realize the jobs aren't there for them any longer. They'll get on with their lives and find something else to do that doesn't require running around spending at least $10 to $20 a day to simply interview for non-existant position.
   
   The transition point will be marked by more people taking public transit and, finally, by more homeless people.

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