North San Jose vs Sunnyvale? Please help me choose.
I'm moving to the bay area from the east coast. I have a couple of options, and it'd be great if you can help me choose between the two options I currently have. My job is on the border of Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and North San Jose - the location is called Alviso. The apartments are 2b2b, and I'm planning to share it with another flatmate. Do give your opinions about living in both Sunnyvale and North San Jose. Thank you!! TC - 185K
Where is your job located? I think there’s more to do in North SJ. I would consider downtown SJ too.
+1 downtown
Alviso - it's on the north border of sunnyvale/santa clara and north san jose.
Depends where the work will be
I have updated the post; it's in Alviso.
Both places are near by. Sunnyvale downtown has variety of restaurants, same as near by Mountain View. Traffic to any of those should be ok
North San Jose is much better and communities are new and generally has young crowd than families in Sunnyvale
I've felt that when I was in the area.
"amazing community" Haha
You guys live on the campus anyway 🙂
Lucky to be in Seattle, I pay 1600 for my own studio 5 min walk from work. (Which also feels expensive to me, as it used to cost ~1200 5 years ago). In this case Sunnyvale sounds like a good option.
I would've taken something like this without thinking twice. A studio here is $2500+
Have you checked out crescent village, north park, river view apartments? Rivermark area is a good spot and close to alviso
I have, I somehow don't feel paying +3400 for an apartment without hardwood floors/stainless steel appliances, etc. Etc.
Sunnyvale is more flexible if you move jobs your commute won’t take a big hit. North sj can be terrible commute except for the limited jobs in dt sj and alviso area
Okay, this makes sense.
Most jobs are further north than west San Jose, so take Sunnyvale if you don't want to move. Also commuting south is better than north from a traffic perspective.
If you must commute at peak hours, nothing beats North SJ/santaClara. If you can commute at off-peak hours Sunnyvale is fine. Neither will get you closer to happening places.
Sunnyvale. Either you’ll have a reverse commute or you’ll save 20 minutes in traffic
Ahh great, what do you think about the North San Jose communities. Is it too far from all the happening places?
There’s nothing happening in San Jose anyway. You have to go to SF for that