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Old Posted Jun 1, 2020, 4:15 AM
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Originally Posted by iheartthed View Post
This doesn't really explain San Jose. San Jose (and Silicon Valley) grew because of the military contractor companies located around Stanford University in the WW2 era. I don't think this had much to do with San Francisco at all. It's really just been in the past couple of decades that tech has sprawled up the bay back into San Francisco.
A university in a satellite town usually has a lot to do with the central city, no matter the arbitrary administrative lines.
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