The people I’ve met at work feel like the people I’ve met in MIT.
If I had to pick between living in a city or living in a suburb for the rest of my life, I’d probably pick a city, but for now, a suburb is nice.Īnd while some things are different, others are much the same. It feels like a break, which is nice in some ways. But it’s quiet out here, and the nights get dark. Well, it’s worse in some ways I miss the activity of a city, of having everywhere I’d ever want to go be a few minutes away. Some things are neither better, nor worse, but different, like living in a suburb. I saw these while taking a walk the other day But Stanford, Berkeley, Cal State, SJSU? They’re all at least an hour away from each other. Or MIT and Boston University, or MIT and Northeastern, or MIT and Boston College these were all at most half-hour commutes. It’s a thirty-minute walk, or a fifteen-minute bus ride. If it was Boston, I could’ve said “Boston” and it would’ve been fine.įinally, consider the distance between Harvard and MIT. It took a while before I realized that SF was not at all near Menlo Park, where my office would be. I rang up some friends and said I’d be living in the Bay, but in my infinite naivete I insisted I’d be living in San Francisco. Earlier this spring, I was looking for housing in the Bay for my internship this summer. “Then nothing in the Bay Area is near anything else.”Ĭonsider another example. “Well, my standard for near is Boston near,” I replied. “Who said it wasn’t near? I guess it depends on what you mean by near,” they said. For example, a friend was recommending me square dance clubs that were “nearby”, and I said that none of them seemed nearby. The size of the Bay Area also means that things are far from each other.
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I don’t know how to drive, I hate riding in cars, and I hate ride apps, but time and again it seems like the most reasonable option to get places. It feels impossible to reliably commute without either living and working near transit stations and planning meticulous schedules, or having a car. And the fastest way to commute there is a thirty-minute walk.
I have a friend who’s also living in Mountain View for the summer, and his place is a thirty-minute walk away. If your destination isn’t in downtown someplace, you’d probably have to walk for half an hour. The headway’s on the scale of half-hours or hours. The Caltrain exists, so does BART, and a dozen other privately-owned transit companies service the rest. The MBTA is that good.īut the Bay? Oh, public transportation exists.
In Boston, anywhere I’d ever wanted to go, I’d gotten to in at worst an hour most of the time, less than twenty minutes. The delay’s not due to waiting or a lack of options, but due to traffic, so owning a car doesn’t make it any faster. Among the trains, jeeps, buses, and tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on average. Metro Manila’s public transportation isn’t great, but it’s serviceable. The Bay Area is huge, which makes certain things hard, like commuting.
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