As someone who was born and raised in San Jose, I can tell you that this city isn&#x27;t what it used to be.<p>Increase in the number of homeless, which I suspect have been pushed out due to rising costs and gentrification from the northern towns and cities, the rise in theft as well as homicides, a downtown that is nowhere near as booming and lively as it once was, make it a much different place.<p>I&#x27;m very happy and thankful to have grown up in San Jose during the better years, but I wouldn&#x27;t want any of my children to grow up there today.