Apartments in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale
I am moving to Bay Area with my family (wife and 1 year old kid). Wife has a job in Santa Clara whereas my office is in Fremont. We are looking for a 1BR or 2BR apartment preferably near a park. Looking for recommendations on good apartment communities. Can afford rent between $2500 to $3500. Reasoning for choosing Santa Clara or Sunnyvale is because it is closer to my Wife’s workplace so she can come home early to be with the kid.
Milpitas will be ideal for both.
Yes if you don’t have a sense of smell or don’t like spending time outdoors.
Milpitas/north Santa Clara/North San Jose - budget is relatively low for the newer complexes, esp in good school zones. I'd just search on Zillow.
I’m not that worried about schools as the kid is just a year old. More concerned about proximity to a decent daycare, park and good neighborhood.
Checkout Monticello apartments in Santa Clara or Stewart Village in Sunnyvale.
Thanks! Will do.
Monticello sucks no good parks nearby. It's a concrete jungle.
Probably Milpitas as there is a lot of new condos there and it is between Fremont and Santa Clara (closer to Fremont though). But you probably know that it's next to a landfill so it stinks over there. Also, the density of new housing there (still building new units!) makes the local commute on Montague a nightmare. If you have to take Montague from Milpitas to Intel in Santa Clara for instance, it'll take at 35-40minutes to go 5 miles in rush hour (yeah, someone running at a decent 8 min/mile pace will beat the cars). But Bay Area traffic is a nightmare almost everywhere now unless you are going against traffic like working in South San Jose but living in Santa Clara or working in the Tri-valley but living in Fremont.
Argh!! That doesn’t sound good. Don’t want to live in a place which smells.
Well to be fair, it depends on the the direction the wind is blowing and if it rained recently or weather has been hot for a few days (wet or cooked garbage yum yum). And I seriously regret passing up on a 1.25M Milpitas house 3 years ago, which is now 1.6M now. FML these are the shitty tradeoffs you have to make while living in the Bay Area.
Why should women always be home to take care of kids? Why not be closer to your work place?
I would love to. I knew someone would bring this up. My wife hates traffic and would rather take care of the kid then spend time in a car. That is why we want to be closer to her office.
Ok. Fair enough. Ppl have given some good housing choices so I ll refrain from doing that. I’m glad you are open to taking care of your child. Cheers.
Plus it seems Santa Clara and Sunnyvale are better cities when compared to Fremont.
I don't know about that... but those are definitely more expensive. The only reason to live in _certain_ parts of Sunnyvale (be wary of the zip code) is because they feed into good public schools in nearby Cupertino. But most areas of Sunnyvale and Santa Clara are "meh." If you are looking to buy, check out this BS that happened back in March. $2 million 848 sq ft house in Sunnymale. You read that right. A young 20 something Chinese guy from Facebook paid that all cash (no doubt with parents help stashing their cash overseas). https://sf.curbed.com/2018/3/2/17073100/silicon-valley-house-home-sunnyvale-record-price-crisis Sunnymale has a big Indian community there so it could be a plus if you are desi.
This is crazy! I am not looking to buy at this point of time. Just looking for family friendly apartment communities. Thanks for sharing your insights.
Sunnyvale sucks in my opinion but some like it so it is what it is. Fremont is better and Milpitas lot better. Santa Clara is big but some areas are awesome (more for buying)
Pick school / day care. Cost : $3000k+ most likely.