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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (139270)	4/19/2001 9:11:01 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Jimbo, Your argument is absurd. The cause and effect of SV becoming what it is, is largely tied into the quality of life there. Scumbria

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (139270)	4/19/2001 9:27:12 AM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"They got rich AFTER they got here. This is not Palm Springs or Palm Beach; it's not a magnet for rich people from elsewhere." To a certain extent yes but; "The Valley has several excellent university; Stanford in particular educated a lot of the people who started a lot of the companies that pour a l.ot of money into the Valley." And many of these students are the offspring of rich (or at least upper middle class) people. And most of the rags to riches stories emerge from non-rich university students rubbing shoulders with rich students in the university system.