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To: Peter Joseph who wrote (13984)	5/16/2004 12:22:09 AM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 110194

Peter, the freeways are a mess in San Diego. Perhaps one of the reasons our air is so clean (relative to L.A.) is that we've done a horrible job of catching-up the freeway system with the population growth. If the freeways actually moved, I suppose there would be a lot more cars on the road and more pollution. (San Diego County inland valleys have the same problem you have, but not nearly as bad as L.A. That's why I said "San Diego proper". The city is primarly coastal or near-coastal.) I have done the I-5 "reverse commute" from San Diego to North County three times in the past 15 years - Carlsbad, San Onofre, and Carlsbad again. The first time was a joy. The last time? What reverse commute? I think the reverse reversed. :) There has been so much business development in the once bedroom-community of Carlsbad, that I think now there are more cars going there in the morning from San Diego than coming to San Diego from Carlsbad. Nobody works in San Diego any more. Everyone is laid-off from their high-tech jobs. No worries, though. No need to work when you can just "tap equity". OK, I exagerate. Some of them do work. Here's a random sampling of the current professions of some of a group of highly-paid (~150K) software contractors that I worked with circa 1995-2000: - Realtor - Kitchen cabinet installer - Early retirement (40's), sails his sailboat around the world - Started a company to make signs (previously was V.P. Engineering) Out of this group, less than 1/2 are still employed in the industry.