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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 05:28:31 JST Adrianna Tan

   @recursive San Jose feels more lived in? Wow I’ve never been to Bellevue and now I’m scared with that comparison

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     Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈 (recursive@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 05:31:53 JST Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

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     @skinnylatte maybe there’s some older buildings somewhere, but it’s so clean and the streets are wide and I don’t see anyone that isn’t like on the way to or from a job in an office

     San Jose had a bunch of weird old residential stuff adjacent to the downtown and more variety of buildings

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     Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 05:36:08 JST Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

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     • Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

     @skinnylatte @recursive Bellevue's downtown is very new, many high-rises in a tight cluster replacing a suburban town center. I like the bus transit center across from City Hall and the light rail station; I was a bus commuter for a year and a half.

     But downtown seems under-designed, hotels and infocomtech office boxes and high-rise residential towers, with shrubbery maintained with gasoline powered landscape crews.

     One of the residential towers, above a luxury store mall by City Hall, seems designed to appeal to Chinese speaking residents.