Below you will find all the SperlingViews added about this city.
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| Cost of Housing - 1/4/2008
Housing costs in the San Jose area begin at $500,00 on the low end for a single family tract style home with approximately 1200 square feet in an average neighborhood. From there, the price increases[more...]
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| Housing - 11/27/2007
Trying to buy a home in the Bay area is next to impossible, if you're not wealthy. My husband and I make $345,000 and yet all the nice homes in good school districts are at least $1.5 million. [more...]
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| Crime rate up in decent community - 11/7/2007
I live in what is considered a nice neighbourhood, but we have problems with gangs & drive by shootings & the break-in rate has risen[more...]
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| Silicon Valley sucks - 10/26/2007
let me tell you, aftet spending the first 19 years of my life here, the silicon valley is so totally lame, it's not funny. unless you're some software engineer, san jose and the sorounding[more...]
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| looking for appt. - 8/30/2007
Moving to San Jose From Malibu, and looking for nice area to live, get back to me any[more...]
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| Life in San Jose - 8/14/2007
Things I like best about San Jose:
1) Weather - as good as it gets.
2) Diversity - everyone is a minority in San Jose!
3) Innovation - lots of new products created here
4) Access to the Pacific[more...]
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| Downtown San Jose - 7/30/2007
Recent developments in San Jose are making the downtown area a new hotspot for nightlife, dining, and living. However, I feel like their is not enough creativity and that it lacks a personality.[more...]
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| A Nice Place If You Can Afford It. - 7/18/2007
San Jose pretty much suffers from the negative attributes of all the other highly populated areas of California. The cost of living is absolutely ridiculous (even by CA standards), the traffic can be[more...]
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| Evergreen - 6/20/2007
Excellent housing, parks, and education...5 minute drive from[more...]
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| Gas - 6/19/2007
GAS is expensive everywhere. But here, in San Jose it's always 30 to 50 cents more a gallon then other places in the state.
It's a captive audience that has to drive to work every day.
On the[more...]
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| Elementary schools vary widely - 6/10/2007
Some of the better elementary schools are in the more depressed neighborhoods, presumably because those schools have received special attention. I live in a neighborhood known for its good schools,[more...]
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| perfect weather - 5/7/2007
The weather in the bay area is wonderful. The temperature in the south bay is usually in the 60's to[more...]
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| San Jose,Ca -on the south side - 4/13/2007
overcrowded, expensive and just plain dirty.
great weather and close to many fun[more...]
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| Nice climate - 4/2/2007
Great climate & proximity to the ocean & mountains but the traffic & population is growing beyond what is acceptable for the cost of[more...]
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| If you don't work in High Tech don't bother - 3/8/2007
I have lived in the Bay Area now for fifteen years and have finally decided to pack it in. My husband and I are both educated professionals, but do not have careers in high tech. Other industries[more...]
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| San Jose Sucks! - 2/24/2007
Lived in San Jose in the 90's thru to 2006. No jobs for High tech. Corporate America sold out its people. High cost of real estate. Gas prices (CA is being punished). Organized government[more...]
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| San Jose - 2/22/2007
San Jose is the Capital of Silicon[more...]
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| casual comfortable and costly - 1/2/2007
We moved here 5 years ago from San Francisco and were both pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised. Perfect climate but power and water companies overcharge. Traffic much worse in other bay area[more...]
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| Housing is outrageous but nice place to live - 12/9/2006
If you like city living and can afford to live here, San Jose is nice. It's a big city though so you have to find the right neighborhood. Family friendly places are Willow Glen, Rose Garden,[more...]
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| There is no justification for living in SAN JOSE! - 9/22/2006
I live just south of San Jose in Monterey. I spent two hours yesterday driving through ghetto after ghetto all throughout the city of San Jose. Downtown consisted of many thugs and homeless people[more...]
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