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Seattle metro has over 4 million people now.. It is like saying San Jose is a larger city than San Francisco because it has a higher population. That doesn't mean anything, as these are the urban metropolitan cores of the metro area.
Anyhow, San Jose has better weather and probably is much cleaner and has a lot less derelicts. I haven't been there in a while, but remember how clean most Silicon Valley cities looked. Seattle is filthy, has crappy weather, homeless people and junkies everywhere, but I think a more fair comparison would be Bellevue to San Jose, which are pretty much the large suburban techie cores of both metro areas, the Bay Area vs Seattle/Tacoma metro.
You just cannot compare an urban core of a metro area to a suburban/satellite city of the metro. Population numbers are not worth comparing, as at any one time , there are probably more people present in the city of Seattle than San Jose, with the large number of people commuting to work in downtown, SODO and South Lake Union. Seattle also is connected to several cities like Shoreline, Burien, etc that would easily put it at 1,000,000 within a 5 mile from its borders.
Correction: San Jose is not a satellite city of any major city, and metro SJ is 4 million since it includes parts of Alameda and San Mateo(Silicon Valley) or 7 million when you include the whole region. SC county, alone, is nearly 2 million.
Correction: San Jose is not a satellite city of any major city, and metro SJ is 4 million since it includes parts of Alameda and San Mateo(Silicon Valley) or 7 million when you include the whole region. SC county, alone, is nearly 2 million.
Alameda and San Mateo Counties are part of the SF-Oak MSA. SJ is a separate MSA.
Correction: San Jose is not a satellite city of any major city, and metro SJ is 4 million since it includes parts of Alameda and San Mateo(Silicon Valley) or 7 million when you include the whole region. SC county, alone, is nearly 2 million.
I live and work in San Jose so naturally I voted for Seattle. If it were SF or the Bay Area as a whole I think it would definitely be a great match for Seattle but San Jose not so much. I spend most of my free time and almost every weekend outside the city limits proper because there is so much more to do elsewhere.
I live and work in San Jose so naturally I voted for Seattle. If it were SF or the Bay Area as a whole I think it would definitely be a great match for Seattle but San Jose not so much. I spend most of my free time and almost every weekend outside the city limits proper because there is so much more to do elsewhere.
When you want to move to SF or Seattle? I think it's time!!!
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