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Old 04-12-2008, 08:06 AM
 
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so San jose seems near perfect on paper. Great weather. Safe. Large and diverse population. Strong economy. Educated population. Close to many wonderful weekend trips (tahoe, San Fran, wine country, etc).

So what is wrong with is place???
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Old 04-12-2008, 11:31 AM
 
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THE PRICE! Traffic.

San Jose is the perfect place. We loved living there for two years. Everything you listed makes the place great. For the average family to live there, you have to rent with no chance of buying.

House prices are dropping I noticed. But it's still very expensive.
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Old 04-12-2008, 01:32 PM
 
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Luke9686 pretty much summarized my view as well.
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Old 04-12-2008, 04:23 PM
 
Location: dfw
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compare SJ with SF or SD, SJ comes a distant third imo

Prices, no beaches like SD, no charm like SF
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Old 04-13-2008, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Monterey Bay, California -- watching the sea lions, whales and otters! :D
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I live in Santa Cruz, but I know of people from here who now live in San Jose and prefer it there.

I have not lived in San Jose, and I do enjoy San Francisco and San Diego. I am going over to San Jose on Friday (18th) to meet with some people at the university (SJSU), and browse around downtown. The more time I spend there, the more I like it. They have really been fixing up the downtown, and it seems more attractive.

The weather is good, it's safe, it's clean, near many other things, and I guess with such a large population, someone likes it! I'm discovering that it's kind of a quiet jewel of a city, and maybe it's better that way, so that the quality of life can remain high.

There are jobs there, and the economy is better than many cities. Being Silicon Valley, it is unique.
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Old 04-13-2008, 02:04 PM
 
Location: The Powerhouse That Is California
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theres nothing "wrong" with our city of SJ...it's just unlike many cities our size, the people here dont focus things such as "how urban" the place is. No one here is trying to compete with anyone else, we just do our own thing. A city of almost a million, but we dont act pretentious, or play up the pop. figure. We just go about our lives, we don't stop and say, "SJ has great weather" blah blah blah like L.A tends to do or "we are sooo diverse" like nyc. People here pay no mind to what race you are really, we all get along and dont think/focus on it. At the same time, no one really complains about lack of excellent public transport(good or bad...i think we are doing decent with VTA).


I love it here, you just have to be here to know how we function. Driving on the freeway(101) , you dont really get a feel for the city. You cant see any real "skyscrapers", so I guess thats why alot of people tend to think we are some suburb?

We are more or less an hour to everywhere, the beach, the city, the wilderness. 1 1/2 by plane to anywhere in southern california. Very safe city, clean, new developments left and right.
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Old 04-13-2008, 06:23 PM
 
Location: yeah
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SJ largely lacks pretentious folk, thus it has no hype to be bought. Some people let image speak louder than fact. You just listed what this place does right, and yet you ask what's wrong. That doesn't make any sense.
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Old 04-13-2008, 07:12 PM
 
Location: In the Redwoods
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San Jose is too hot and inland for my taste, but that's just a personal preference... I also prefer either a CITY or a suburb, though, and have always felt that San Jose was caught somewhere in the middle. Aside from that, I guess there's nothing "wrong" with it! SJ is a fine place to live, with some very nice & "affordable" (by our standards) neighborhoods. I'm an alum of SJSU's graduate school, so obviously I didn't think it was all that bad.
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Old 04-13-2008, 11:15 PM
 
Location: San Jose, CA
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Well, the public transit system is so slow it can take 2 hours plus to get from one corner of San Jose to the other. That's a downside, and a side effect of how sprawling it is. From the western extreme at 85 & De Anza to the eastern extreme at Santa Teresa & Bernal is something like 18 miles.
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Old 04-14-2008, 12:04 AM
 
Location: yeah
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Well, the public transit system is so slow it can take 2 hours plus to get from one corner of San Jose to the other. That's a downside, and a side effect of how sprawling it is. From the western extreme at 85 & De Anza to the eastern extreme at Santa Teresa & Bernal is something like 18 miles.
That's southern, and not the extreme.
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