THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Huff on March 20, 2017, 07:05:23 PM
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have a job opportunity here, wondering if worth pursing
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lol no.
(and I live in Sacramento. That should tell you something)
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How much do you want your life to be somewhere between Breaking Bad and Sony of Anarchy with a dash of trailer park?
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its a pretty good job
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The drug and crime problems are serious. I don't mean the comparison as a joke. I can understand wanting a good paying job, but I'd research those two issues first. If you have a family then I'd be more concerned than if you were single.
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Seriously, it seems like a place you could go to earn some valuable short term experience since they have that big meth/hepatitis C etc problem so I'm sure their hospitals are understaffed.
And there is an entire real Costco there when you need to be reminded of the yuppie dream you're fighting for.
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It's a place you drive through on the way to a place you actually want to go to.
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I have family in Fresno. It's not a good place to live. I'm not super fond of Puppy's Sacramento either, but it's at least an order of magnitude better than Fresno.
As rarely as I agree with Etiolate these days, I'm 100% in accord with his assessment of Fresno.
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Yeah, skip unless it's a really good job and you don't mind being nowhere with nothing to do.
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Fresneck.
Actually I don't know much about Fresno except their fans for football are like drunker Raiders fans.
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I kind of like rural towns. Cowtowns have a charm. The issue with Fresno isn't the rural thing.
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Yeah, skip unless it's a really good job and you don't mind being nowhere with nothing to do.
I mean there's meth
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Yeah, like everyone said, stay away. Not just from Fresno, but Bakersfield, and pretty much everything in the San Joaquin Valley. :-X
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well i'll prob still fly out for the interview
and hope some other jobs open up in the meantime
thanks for the advice
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On a scale of 1-10 how white are you
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69
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Oh god no. It's the city in California that offers the very least.
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well i'll prob still fly out for the interview
and hope some other jobs open up in the meantime
thanks for the advice
Always let a company fly you out; you get to see the company culture up close, and get a read on if you want to be there or not. In this case, Fresno will also prove that we're not lying to you.
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69
Don't sweat it, you'll fit right in buddy
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I came from Fresno so... yeah think about that
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hard pass unless the scrilla is unpassable.
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Is Oakland the least shitty place to live in for SF work?
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Is Oakland the least shitty place to live in for SF work?
tl;dr: Yes.
LONGWINDED EXPERT MODE: Depends on what you call "shitty" and what you want your commute to be. Living in SF itself is stupid expensive, South SF only slightly less so with a huge drop in amenities and personality. Same again for San Mateo (though it has its points!) and more-so for Redwood City. If you're on the peninsula, living -AND- working near a CalTrain station can help, but if you're in tech, the hours don't make it easy to keep their schedule, and about once a month some shithead loses their vehicle or their life or both on the tracks; unlike Japan, there are not alternate railways to take to get home.
If you're off the south peninsula, any bridge in Silicon Valley (Hwys 80, 101, 92) is a complete shitshow during commute times and, with flexible hours, commute times are not easily defined. 6AM? 10:30AM? Still garbage pace. I'd argue that Piedmont is a nicer area than Oakland, but I love the part of Oakland which borders on Piedmont but is not zoned as Piedmont. It's got a lot of personality and community spirit.
If you want utter suburbia, Milpitas will have you ward-and-juning it up in no time. Union City is track-housing and minimall central, but has enough immigrants that it is bound to eventually find a unique flavor. Its neighbor to the north, Hayward, should be renamed "Little Fresno."
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http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article145234709.html
hmm yal were right
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To add on to what Chrono said, by 9AM, most of the Northbound traffic has subsided. If you want a good estimate on what commute times are like, the Google Maps and Waze are extremely good at giving typical commuter traffic flow (dono if Waze lets you enter the start point/departure time like GMaps tho).
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:fbm
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I remembered this thread when Deltapocalypse 2017 had us driving to Fresno from LA at 1am to make a 6am flight and Maps directed us to some Mad Max shit instead of the airport.