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Are you looking for a new location to reside? Do you need an apartment to call home? If so, you can make your search extremely easy by searching for an

San Jose is the original silicon valley in America. This is the name applied to the 30 mile area surrounding the city of San Jose. There are about 20 other smaller cities the most well known of the which are probably Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. Apartments here are not very affordable nor so abundant. This is one of the most expensive places to live and work in the country.

The cost of living in this area is approximately 360% above the national average. Apartment rentals in the San Jose and South Bay area begin at $1200 per month for studios. The median price of all apartments in this area is $1200 per month. The median household income, which reflects on the employment market here is that people who live in this area make upwards of $80,000 per year in annual salary. Studies show that there are more than 350,000 jobs available in this area which also features more than 25 companies which employ at least 1000 workers each. Nearly all of the jobs are high tech and major employers include IBM, Intel, Yahoo, Apple, Netscape, Sun Sony and Cisco, as well as Hitachi and Microsoft. Two of the big companies, Xilinx and Adobe are listed as best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine. In addition to all of the high technology jobs there are additional jobs available in the support services of accounting, marketing, sales, education and customer support.
According to a community survey on community life in this area, the locals say they love their community and wouldn’t leave it ever. 70% of those surveyed rated the quality of life as good or better. More than 90% said they feel safe from crime. In fact, the FBI rates San Jose as the safest big city in America. It is also considered the third most fun city in which to live and work according to Money Magazine. Couple that with a mild year round climate and you really can’t go wrong. San Jose is a few hours from Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, Napa Valley, Yosemite National Park as well as beautiful Monterey.
Most of the affordable apartments are centered around San Jose State University. You will also find apartments for rent in the South Bay communities, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. In addition you may also want to investigate the smaller communitiess of Milpitas, Campbell and Gilroy.