San Jose never gets any respect. Even though it’s the tenth largest city in the country, it does not have the most spectacular reputation.

Things in San Jose that Don't Suck shows you the interesting people, creative types, independent businesses and the natural outdoors that do indeed exist here. You just have to know where to look.

Even people who live here don’t realize how much there is to do in San Jose.

People say we’re a suburban wasteland of hideous concrete expressways, lifelessly uniform strip malls and demoralizing tract-house subdivisions multiplied indefinitely across the landscape.

While that description is not entirely inaccurate, there exists much between the cracks.

As a lifelong resident, Gary Singh has occupied the interstices of San Jose for decades and as a newspaper journalist, he's written about the San Jose condition for twelve straight years now.

He's always amazed when people assume there’s nothing here, when in fact, there is much thriving underneath the radar.

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