Congestion on the Silicon Valley's freeway is the worst in California. And while you may be able to abandon your body when you enter cyberspace, finally you need to have an address in mortar and wood. Housing costs continue to rise in the Valley. The odd thing, the oddest thing, is that no one can say. It's like looking for Hollywood.
Silicon Valley is as much legendary as it is a place on the map.
Let's just say that the Silicon Valley is that part of California that comes closest to the edge we call the future, though lately the news of the future has not been good. There has been, for example, a steady decline in high school graduation rates in the Silicon Valley. Last year, only 70 percent graduated. By far, the largest city in the Silicon Valley is San Jose. It has become the biggest city in Northern California, bigger than its glamorous rival, San Francisco, which used to sneer that San Jose was not a city at all, but a series of freeway exits.