All of San Jose.
And the neighbors.

Towers, office suites above street-level bars and restaurants, four public garage structures, and evenings that run late enough for the keys to end up on a passenger seat.

A pre-war neighbourhood that mostly still has its original hardware: mortise locks, skeleton-key interior doors, wooden screen doors, and a village high street whose shops lock up long after the houses do.

Seventies and eighties subdivisions below the hills: bigger houses, three and four exterior doors each, side gates onto the garden, and safes that came with the family rather than the house.

Post-war tract ranches off Union Ave and Camden Ave, most of them still wearing the hardware the builder fitted, with a deadbolt added a generation later and a strike that no longer lines up.

Nineties and two-thousands subdivisions on the east side: attached garages, patio sliders onto small gardens, and the door between garage and kitchen that nobody thinks of as an exterior door.

An older north-east neighbourhood with two lives — sixties ranch houses, many with an added unit at the back, and the newer transit-village blocks that arrived with the BART station.

The Golden Triangle and the streets around it — leased offices and light-industrial units, and the large apartment complexes their employees live in, eighteen minutes from where the vans stage.

Student rentals around the university, older family streets, and stadium evenings that turn a quiet car park into two hundred people looking for their keys at once.

A small downtown of independent shops and restaurants, a ring of pre-war bungalows around it, and the offices and retail at the Pruneyard.

Newer townhome and apartment complexes, the retail car parks around the Great Mall, and light-industrial units with man-doors and roller shutters.

Sixties and seventies ranch streets with high turnover, newer condo blocks with their own rules about hardware, and more home safes per address than anywhere else nearby.

Older houses in the flats, hillside properties with gates and long approaches above them, and the shops and restaurants along the main street.

Large properties on quiet roads: gates on the drive, guest houses and pool houses, and enough separate locks that a plan is worth more than a new deadbolt.