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I am completing 10 years since moving to the bay area. Single income never bought a home here renting a SFH in Fremont. My strategy from the get go was to retire elsewhere so purchased two properties one in low cost city and state in US and second beach vacation home in South East Asia both of which ...

[QUOTE=DesBhakt;680647]FB is staffing numbers are low in Fremont now. However, that should increase in a couple of years.[/QUOTE]

Somehow I doubt the yuppies working at FB will choose to live in Desi ghetto of Fremont.

[QUOTE=techynt;680654]I am just rooting for her to get 25 slams before she retires.... that should be enough to keep people quite for about 50-100 years when they talk about the GOAT in [B]women[/B] tennis.[/QUOTE] SJW wont' be happy with your statement cuz of bolded above. Mac got in a lot of ...

[QUOTE=boca;680637]Martina's Op Ed in NYT -> [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/opinion/martina-navratilova-serena-williams-us-open.html[/URL] I call her "Navrathna"lova. :) (9 gems)[/QUOTE] Absolutely fantastic article and right on the money in every aspect. Exactly what I expected from ...

[QUOTE=boca;680538]She pulled all the cards: woman, mother, race, etc.... She needs to take a step back and calm down. She has had a great year, after her return. She shouldn't let this diminish her achievements this year.[/QUOTE] Yes, only card she couldn't pull was lesbian or she would have. I ...

One recent good example I saw was Aamir Khan doing I think what was Rajasthani accent very well in Peeke. Kamal Hassan does regional tamil nadu accents very well as do other tamil actors male and female.

[QUOTE=lol;679386]I've worked in the bay for 15 years. Yes it is the norm for senior ICs in good tech companies (fb, google, amazon, apple etc). Exceptions are people who get paid in 7 figures. Even startups should get you 275K these days. Comp has really increased in the last 5 years (mainly due to ...

[QUOTE=sark;679220]just checked the price for basic room with breakfast - Rs 12,160 or so per night - breakfast is Rs 1000 in this rate. what are they smoking?[/QUOTE] I didn't say it was cheap :) Fisherman's Cove is a 5-star resort and prices are 5-star range. If you were to take a 1.5 hour flight ...

[QUOTE=boca;679167]The maintenance of Chennai is handled by Chennai Corporation with the Mayor as the head. Depends on when you went there. Between 1996 and 2011, it was under DMK. Since 2011, it is under ADMK. They did maintain the beach road, as it was the speedway for both MK & Jaya to whiz past ...

Let's not lump China in with India. As someone who frequents China regularly for work, I think they are taking big steps to address their environmental challenges. In Shenzhen, china's silicon valley, city buses are being converted to hybrid or all electric. Gasoline based two wheelers are banned ...