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It’s obviously Oakland. Beyond all the other stuff, San Jose suffers from all the San’s in the state. Those of us who don’t live in California are aware of San Francisco and the NFL taught us about San Diego. But honestly we just start blurring all the other ones together right about there. Silicon Valley yes, San Jose only maybe.
Edit: For the 3rd largest city in California and the 10th largest in the US it sure does have a low profile; my goodness. This has to be a case where the alternate name for an area just completely overshadows it. San Jose is Silicon Valley? Good to know.
Exactly my thoughts too, it's the 10th largest city in America for god sake lol articles have been written on this as well as to how low profile SJ is but i never knew that it was completely unknown to the people in the East coast which really took me by surprise and San Jose is considered the capital of Silicon Valley but the biggest Tech companies like Google, Apple, Facebook are all headquartered outside of San Jose so even i'm not quite sure why it's considered the capital probably because it's the largest city in the area but if somebody has more knowledge to this, let me know cause i might be wrong.
Exactly my thoughts too, it's the 10th largest city in America for god sake lol articles have been written on this as well as to how low profile SJ is but i never knew that it was completely unknown to the people in the East coast which really took me by surprise and San Jose is considered the capital of Silicon Valley but the biggest Tech companies like Google, Apple, Facebook are all headquartered outside of San Jose so even i'm not quite sure why it's considered the capital probably because it's the largest city in the area but if somebody has more knowledge to this, let me know cause i might be wrong.
I remember, either the chamber of commerce or city branded itself as the 'Capital of Silicon Valley' a while back, it was a marketing campaign. Not like some official govt designation.
Personally I don't think of Silicon Valley as being a part of San Jose. To me the core of "Silicon Valley" is Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, etc, which sit between SF and San Jose. Of course most of that is a bit closer to San Jose than it is to San Francisco, but I think those areas nonetheless look toward SF as "the city" more so than they look towards San Jose.
It's kind of like DFW. Nobody says that the Cowboys or Rangers play their games in Fort Worth. They'd either accurately say Arlington, or they'd say Dallas. The fact that Arlington is technically closer to Fort Worth than it is to Dallas isn't super relevant.
Silicon Valley does not make one think of cities besides maybe nearby San Francisco. To the extent most of us think of cities in the Silicon Valley, we are likely to know only Cupertino. But mostly we think nerdy office parks.
I wonder what the results to this poll would be if you did a survey of only Bay Area residents. I think Oakland would still be leading but not by nearly as much.
I feel like the perception regionally is that San Jose is more well-known nationally than it actually is, and that Oakland is less well-known nationally than it actually is.
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