Originally Posted by
nkedel
So are some of my neighbors, and I'm pretty sure the old timers around here would be surprised to find out we're in the northern/upper peninsula.
The Upper Peninsula is part of Michigan. Daly City-Burlingame-San Carlos to Redwood City is just "Peninsula" sans adjective, except for Hillsborough and Atherton, which belong to their own unique galaxy, the $$$$$ Zone.
"Mid-Peninsula" is Redwood City to Mountain View, but "Silicon Valley" overlaps that from Palo Alto south to San Jose. And to those with more years than I've got, Palo Alto to Gilroy was known as "the fruit basket of America" for all the apricot, cherry, peach, etc. orchards which I just barely remember from childhood.
Only in America would the very best crop land be paved over and covered with hideous concrete buildings...
Originally Posted by
nkedel
OTOH, I haven't been anywhere for 4 decades quite yet (well, anywhere breathing; it's enough under a year for that milestone that I'd have already been somewhere just not under my own power yet.)
When's the party?
Originally Posted by
nkedel
Not exactly an upstanding reference work...
Can't remember the thread, but a while back someone here on FT won a bet that they could make San Jose a suburb of Istanbul on wikipedia. The joys of modern media!
All this typing is making me hungry. I need a burger.