Sprawling smack in the middle of the fertile Valle Central, SAN JOSÉ has a spectacular setting, ringed by the jagged silhouettes of soaring mountains – some of them volcanoes – on all sides.
That’s where the compliments end, however, and you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who has much good to say about the city’s potholed streets and car-dealership architecture – not to mention the choking diesel fumes, kamikaze drivers and chaotically unplanned expansion. In the gridlocked centre things are wearingly hectic, with vendors of fruit, lottery tickets and cigarettes jostling on street corners, and thousands of shoestores tumbling out onto the sidewalks.
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