I'm grimacing with ironic amusement reading this-I actually quit my job in SF for a slightly better paying one in Portland, precisely because its too expensive to live here (here for me being Fremont, for a few more weeks).
San Jose (and Santa Clara County for that matter) is remarkably non dense and very, very suburban. There's so much room to expand, and build an adequate housing stock, so that even a crappy 1 bedroom apartment doesn't cost over 2K. I've participated in FB convos in which even non tech Santa Clara County residents think that's a bad idea-oh noes, Manhattanization! Goddamn SC County needs that. Besides, as anyone who's experienced the recessed 1 story office parks offset from 6 lane roads by massive parking lots that are the hallmark of SV, SC County is so very, very far from being Manhattan.
San Jose (and Santa Clara County for that matter) is remarkably non dense and very, very suburban. There's so much room to expand, and build an adequate housing stock, so that even a crappy 1 bedroom apartment doesn't cost over 2K. I've participated in FB convos in which even non tech Santa Clara County residents think that's a bad idea-oh noes, Manhattanization! Goddamn SC County needs that. Besides, as anyone who's experienced the recessed 1 story office parks offset from 6 lane roads by massive parking lots that are the hallmark of SV, SC County is so very, very far from being Manhattan.