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Living in San Jose, CA

San Jose is an excellent city for those interested in exploring the arts. Public art projects abound through the downtown and business districts, and one can easily stumble across collections in the expanding civic neighborhoods and areas. These include parks, fire stations, and even libraries. San Jose is also conducive to a very active lifestyle, boasting a large number of gardens, parks, and recreational sites for the outdoor enthusiast in you!

The city’s population is very diverse. There are various neighborhoods with large Mexican and Asian populations, Japanese and Vietnamese in particular.

The large student population lends the city a young, pre-professional vibe, further enhanced by the thriving tech and startup scene in the Bay Area. As a result, there is also a thriving nightlife scene that both younger and older residents can take part in.

One of the main downsides to living in San Jose is the traffic. Traffic jams can make commutes lengthy compared to other cities in the country.

One of the great perks that many companies offer, however, is shuttle and bus services for their employees.

San Jose, CA employment & economy

As the largest city in the Bay Area, San Jose is a hub for engineering, entrepreneurship, and technology. Local universities flood the labor market with thousands of graduates in the computer science and engineering fields each year; this trend has led to high levels of growth and skyrocketing housing prices.

San Jose residents, in fact, have the highest median household income of any city with a population of over 280,000. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA had an unemployment rate of just 3.7% in April 2016, well under the national rate of 5% in the same period.

Education in San Jose, CA

San Jose is home to San Jose State University, San Jose City College (SJCC), National Hispanic University, Santa Clara University, and CALMAT (California University of Management and Technology), and is less than an hour away from Stanford and U.C. Berkeley.