>>>>>>>I posted a job available in the Jobs Link here.
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>>>>>>>Visual FoxPro
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>>>>>>>The job is in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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>>>>>>>Full-time M/F, but you will have to rotate on weekend coverage to support our users.
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>>>>>>>Interested?
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>>>>>>How far it is from Raleigh?
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>>>>>>Member #024376 may be interested.
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>>>>>About an Hour away on Interstate 40.
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>>>>In California a one hour commute is not unusual. In fact you can spend that much time to go 7 miles during rush hour. :)
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>>>Figures in that range have actually been documented in the most congested places like the Bay Area, L.A., Chicago, Houston, and Boston. And it's expected to get worse.
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>>>My friend out in wine country says 101 outbound is so bad she won't even attempt it during rush "hour", especially on Fridays. If she has to be in "the City" (the only way she refers to SF, as though there are no others) she has dinner or something to wait the worst of it out.
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>>>My commute is 1:15 - 1:30 each way but at least that's 33 miles.
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>>Yes, San Francisco is "The City by the Golden Gate, or "The city"! Your friend is right! The problem is that it is too popular and too many people want to live here, which makes it a true pain you know where! :)
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>>In some places we have stop lights on the freeways and I am not talking about the bridges which are a horror story in themselves.
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>Stop lights to enter the freeway or on the freeway itself? The latter is one I haven't seen.

One such area is where freeway 237 and 880 meet. 237 is three lanes and has stop lites for commute hours to merge into 880. It is a total mess! It took me an hour to go one mile one day, on the way to Fremont.



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>Earlier this week I read something about Bill Walsh, who as you surely know is dying of leukemia. He was reminiscing about the first time the 49ers won the Super Bowl, the first time a team from San Francisco had won a pro sports championship. He said he argued against a victory parade. A native himself, he said San Franciscans are too sophisticated, they won't go to a parade. He said they started out along the Embarcadero and thought his fears were correct. "There was nobody there, nothing. And then we turned onto Market Street...."