Our city, Sunnyvale, has been named safest city

Good choices, CI.

What we concerned ourselves with when choosing a city to call home, we wanted to make sure that the schools were considered some of the best. When we bought here in the mid-1970's, it was a quiet growing city between San Francisco and San Jose, transforming from farming country, mostly cherry farms, to become the suburbs for the two major cities. Our home was built in 1955, but we've done major renovation on this home from top to bottom. We replaced all the window and doors, and most of the flooring. We live close to highway 101 and 280, so we have a choice in traveling north or south. Our children grew up here, and they have done well through college. *will continue later.

I don't recall anything about Sunnyvale. When I was a kid, we went on hikes from Campbell to Los Gatos. I don't recall many details. My memory is of lots of woods. I think we did it three times, before moving back to Fresno.

Our older son got his graduate degree at the University of Texas in Austin, works and now lives there. Our younger son passed on in 2013 from an overdose of opiates. We didn't know he was hooked, until we got the autopsy report. He had great potential, because he graduated from college magna cum laude. I think opiates is widespread, and kills many young adults. According to WAPO, 100 die from opiates every day. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/02/07/100-americans-die-of-drug-overdoses-each-day-how-do-we-stop-that/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.75bc9738bf97

check back later.