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I've been looking in to relocating recently; the area between San Fransisco and San Jose has been high on my list, but I've always been a little put off about t
by icey 17y ago
I've been looking in to relocating recently; the area between San Fransisco and San Jose has been high on my list, but I've always been a little put off about the fact that it's hard to find any balanced discussions about what the quality of life is like there. I get that it's the #1 place for a geek to be, but I'm taking my wife as well and she's not a geek at all.
It's nice to see someone talking a little bit about the area without all of the gilded verbiage.
(Of course, #2 on my list right now is Portland, and I'm finding myself having a similar problem with discussion about that city right now as well ;))
- ecq 17y agoPalo Alto and Cupertino are nice.
- boucher 17y agoThere's not much going on in Cupertino. Palo Alto is a much nicer place to live. It's also much more expensive.
- strlen 17y agoMountain View is affordable (compared to both Cupertino and Palo Alto, but unfortunately not to the rest of San Jose) - there's a great deal of good restaurants, it's a major Caltrain station (for a trip to the city). It also escapes most of the suburban cliches (there's independent grocery stories, fewer chain stores -- other than the Walmart/Target area near San Antonio).
- boucher 17y agoIt's pretty crazy how cheap San Jose is, especially over in the eastern part of town. But it's just not that exciting of a place to move to. Mountain View is much better than Cupertino, so long as you are relatively close to Castro St. Highly recommended if you want to live in that area and don't want to pay Palo Alto prices.
- zand 17y agoI can't recommend San Jose, especially the eastern side, unless all you do after leaving the office is sleep.
- nostrademons 17y agoI think Mountain View's one of the best values in Silicon Valley right now. Prices are reasonable, but there's a fair amount of cultural stuff that goes on downtown, and the town isn't quite as suburbany-stripmall as Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, or San Jose.