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Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.
Emeryville is a 10 minute drive from SF, or 1 mile away from a BART station that gets you to SF in 15 minutes. It is a suburb of SF or a suburb in the SF Bay Area.
and here I am, wondering if it's safe to eat stuff grown in my yard because there was a fire at a nuclear weapons production facility 30 miles from here, 50 years ago.
Emeryville started as a mudflat on the Bay where they'd drive cattle to slaughterhouses and leather tanners. It smelled real bad so they did it way out in the middle of nowhere. It sort of became the place for messy industry, when just burying the bad junk was considered sufficient. Company I worked for had major construction project for their campus expansion, but it took a while to clear the PG&E transformer storag…
Sounds remarkably similar to the Love Canal in the history of dirty industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal
Then "Not long after having taken control of the land, the Niagara Falls School Board proceeded to develop the land, including construction activity that substantially breached containment structures in a number of ways, allowing previously trapped chemicals to seep out."
Everyone knew what was there, but for some odd reason they still decided to build a new school and a bunch of housing there.
Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.
I was a SF resident for 15 years then moved to the East Coast. Some notes from East Coasters: a) SF (the city) starts at the Golden Gate bridge and runs all the way to San Jose. b) Redwood city, San Jose and Oakland - anything located 50 miles around SF - these are all suburbs of SF. c) The entire state burns every summer.
Then when talking to anyone from outside the Bay Area it's "I live in San Francisco", even it's take an hour to drive to the city proper.
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I was a SF resident for 15 years then moved to the East Coast. Some notes from East Coasters: a) SF (the city) starts at the Golden Gate bridge and runs all the way to San Jose. b) Redwood city, San Jose and Oakland - anything located 50 miles around SF - these are all suburbs of SF. c) The entire state burns every summer.
As a San Jose resident this all seems pretty accurate TBH.
and here I am, wondering if it's safe to eat stuff grown in my yard because there was a fire at a nuclear weapons production facility 30 miles from here, 50 years ago.
Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.
I was a SF resident for 15 years then moved to the East Coast. Some notes from East Coasters: a) SF (the city) starts at the Golden Gate bridge and runs all the way to San Jose. b) Redwood city, San Jose and Oakland - anything located 50 miles around SF - these are all suburbs of SF. c) The entire state burns every summer.
Their real responses to visiting: "Where are all the people"
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I was a SF resident for 15 years then moved to the East Coast. Some notes from East Coasters: a) SF (the city) starts at the Golden Gate bridge and runs all the way to San Jose. b) Redwood city, San Jose and Oakland - anything located 50 miles around SF - these are all suburbs of SF. c) The entire state burns every summer.
It's kind of funny. People who live outside of SF will say "Oh, I live in a , it's so nice". Then when talking to anyone from outside the Bay Area it's "I live in San Francisco", even it's take an hour to drive to the city proper.
Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.
Most people from london don’t live in “city of london”