Avoid Moving To San Jose CA - Unless You Can Handle These 10 Negatives

[@formica.]

We just moved to San Jose Berryessa area. I wouldn't call this Silicon Valley. Maybe Silicon Valley Adjacent. Silicon Valley tech companies are mostly in the suburban cities of San Mateo down to Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santo Clara. San Jose is more industrial, big airport, city with normal city problems. Strange to have ugly neighborhoods right next to expensive ones. There is no charm to crazy roads! It is like a mini-Los Angeles with criss-crossing freeways and expressways. TOO many homeless allowed to live in campers, vans, they just park on the street, even in nice neighborhoods. Near freeways there are tent people surrounded by trash. .Crazy ones too, wandering the streets, pushing carts, talking to themselves. Lots of tech people are unemployed this year, definitely check Indeed for jobs and salaries first. Not everyone is an engineer buying $million houses as you will soon find out. Yes there are lots of ethnic food stores, even whole ethnic malls. Like a foreign country. We like our nice one bedroom apartment, $2700 + utils + hummingbirds. We save money cooking at home because we can't afford the restaurants. Santa Cruz beach is near and nice.

[@JulieJSears]

In 2015 we moved from the Santa Clara County area to the Annapolis, MD area. Do not talk to me about weather, haha. What is the weather THIS HOUR, should I wear a jacket, a tee shirt, flip flops, boots. Should I have an umbrella? Sunscreen? It changes all.the.time. The Bay area a bit chilly and rainy?? Not compared to 90% of the rest of the nation. Don't even get me started on humidity from May to September. along with pollen, lots, and lots of pollen. Live in the Bay Area, pay the money, deal with the traffic (it's way better than LA, trust me), it will be worth it. signed, retired former Bay Area tech worker.

[@RoLE777]

Are people still moving to the bay area?!… Or is this a video that meant to be put out pre-pandemic?