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To: Dale Baker who wrote (13577)	11/10/2004 4:43:48 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 20773

Dale, Re: , they are taking a daring leap into the unknown, moving to towns that have barely been built, working often in high-tech office parks doing pioneering work in biotech and nanotechnology. I'm wondering if it just me, but this seems to be fantasy. I've seen the Mesa, AZ area, and I have a sister living in Scottsdale. I've lived in the Bay Area with the ex-urbs spreading up into Sonoma County and over Altamont Pass into the Central Valley. I have a sister who lives in the far west suburbs of Chicago. And in every instance, most of these ex-urbanites are engaged in hellacious commutes back into the urban hubs that are the economic lifeblood of their regions. In the Bay Area in particular, the biotech and nanotechnology start-ups are in the funky neighborhoods of Berkeley, Oakland or Emeryville or near the Stanford campus and not out in Tracy or Sonoma. Perhaps the reason Mr. Brooks is having a hard time getting the intellectuals in Berkeley interested in his book is because he's so delusional.