Best neighborhoods in San Jose
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Ranked 1st best neighborhood in San Jose
"My Fond Memories"
- smd4newsboys
When I lived In California One of the places i settles with my parents was in Willow Glen. I loved living here there was always a ton to do as a kid which was good. It kept me busy and got me out of t...
Ranked 2nd best neighborhood in San Jose
"Full-Service Suburban Living"
- DirtyHarry
You are deep into suburban living by the time you get into Blossom Valley. Condos, townhomes, single-family homes and even trailer parks make up the dozen or so micro neighborhoods that you find here...
Ranked 3rd best neighborhood in San Jose
"This street has it all"
- TamanduaGirl
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum is a great museum with real mummies and even mummified cats. They even describe how mummification was done. All the other artifacts are great and I love looking at the...
Ranked 4th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Great For Tech Workers with Families"
- DirtyHarry
Bordering Los Gatos on the west, Cambrian Park is one of those transitional areas where you see home prices slowly rise the closer you get to its upper crust neighbor. There are even some million dol...
Ranked 5th best neighborhood in San Jose
"The Far Tentacle of Suburban Sprawl"
- DirtyHarry
The Evergreen area just to the south of Reid-Hillview Airport and Lake Cunningham on the far eastern end of San Jose is the far reach of SJ suburban sprawl. The area was in the midst of a housing boom...
Ranked 6th best neighborhood in San Jose
"vibrant downdown area, but still small town feel"
- Shinebox
I took my family to the tech museum of innovation in downtown san jose last winter to see a special exhibit of machines built after Da Vinci's designs. The exhibit was absolutely fascinating. The re...
Ranked 7th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Best Bay Area Airport"
- StephSF
While the surrounding neighborhood is subject to noise and is fairly residential by comparison to the rest of the city, I stand by the fact, time and time again, that San Jose Airport is the best in S...
Ranked 8th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Close Enough to take a Bite Out of Apple"
- DirtyHarry
West San Jose is a pretty standard residential area. It’s got a ton of Ranch homes from the 50’s and 60’s (the big boom period for San Jose) and all the usual things that you expect from the suburbs—...
Ranked 9th best neighborhood in San Jose
"A Ciy Onto Itself"
- DirtyHarry
Squeezed between Highways 880, 680 and 101 on the west, east and south respectively is the North Valley area of San Jose—a location so diverse that in most regions it would probably simply be consid...
Ranked 10th best neighborhood in San Jose
"A Mix of Good and Not So Good Neighborhoods"
- DirtyHarry
The southeast neighborhood of Edenvale—just a hop, skip and jump from Morgan Hill—is actually better thought of as a grouping of about a dozen suburban residential neighborhoods: Century-Pebbletree, C...
Ranked 11th best neighborhood in San Jose
"San Joses mean streets"
- DirtyHarry
East San Jose consists of tightly packed ranch homes dating from around 1960 on average. The neighborhood has the feel of a 1970’s style neighborhood, complete with beaten up older cars.
Generall...
Ranked 12th best neighborhood in San Jose
"San Joses Arm Pit"
- DirtyHarry
Alum Rock, San Jose—both considered a neighborhood and a separate city onto itself—is yet another of these locations that has been hit hard by the Foreclosure Crisis. 80% of homes that are currently...
Ranked 13th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Box Stores, Cemetaries, and Condos"
- DirtyHarry
Every major city, I suppose, has an area like this. A place where all the big box stores come together in one spot. This is a major part of what you will find here—from TJ Maxx to Toys-R-Us. Fairgrou...
Ranked 14th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Nice Hilly Homes"
- DirtyHarry
The Berryessa area of San Jose is located in the far northeastern corner of the city, nestled up against the Contra Costa hills. This is a fairly middle class to upper middle class neighborhood, not...
Unranked Neighborhoods
"If you live on Crystal Springs Court you are Almaden Country..."
- markahorn
If you wish to visit some really nice houses all you have to do is take a drive to Crystal Springs Court. This neighborhood is full of million dollar plus homes. I'll be honest sometimes I like just d...
"Great Southern Nook"
- DirtyHarry
The Santa Tereza area, the farthest most southern part of San Jose, is one of those enclaves for the upper-middle class that you expect to find in the vicinity of the Silicon Valley.
On the northe...
"SJ Style OC"
- DirtyHarry
Nicely tucked away up in the hills, Silver Creek Valley brings a little touch of Orange County right to Silicon Valley. If you are a fan of the O. C. and have always wanted to experience what it is l...
"Its All Roses"
- DirtyHarry
The Rose Garden Neighborhood in San Jose is just north of the Burbank neighborhood. It is named for being the home of the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden. The homes right around the Rose Garden itself...