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I remember when I first came here from Australia as a new bride I asked my husband. So where is downtown Santa Clara? You know like downtown Malvern, Toorak, South Yarra or Armadale? You know darling where you can go and have lunch, or do some shopping or have a beer at the end of day? He said “oh it’s down in the old quad”. So when we eventually went to check it out I was still saying “so where is downtown Santa Clara?” He honestly couldn’t tell me – all he could say was ‘you’ll get used to it”. Used to what?
A block of shops / stores that involve a couple of bars, a drycleaners, a stamp shop, a photo store (which is long gone), a well known bakery which closed up shop last year over night and a few other insignificant shops. Sad actually, I guess those that live around the old quad are happy because no-one goes down there and it means it’s a pretty quiet area. How convenient for those that live down that way. I believe that most of the current and past city council members live either in or around the quad. How convenient for them to live in a quiet part of town.
Oh the penny just dropped. I need to move to the old quad area because then I’ll be further away from the hustle and bustle of the soon to be center of Santa Clara, which will be the El Camino / Lawrence intersection where the city has over 2000 residential properties on it’s books for development. Part of their “master plan”. Anyone else heard of a master plan before? Memories of HSC (high school certificate) European History lessons! Kind of creepy!
©Letters From Silicon Valley 2008
