I just got back from a trip to San Jose. The downtown area is an absolute ghost town, a dead city. I travel to cities all over the country and the world, and I'... (opens in new tab)

I just got back from a trip to San Jose. The downtown area is an absolute ghost town, a dead city. I travel to cities all over the country and the world, and I've never seen anything like this before. It feels post-apocalyptic. My Uber driver says it's been getting progressively worse, and he decided to give me a demonstration. We stopped in the middle of a major intersection, in the middle of downtown, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week, on a sunny day in April, and we got o...