Hi, I could be moving to attend San Jose State University next year. One of the reasons is because of the MLS Earthquakes and will become a fan immediately. Any information about rents, job situation, or San Jose state university will be greatly appreciated. Keep in mind that I am going to school there when answering the questions. Thank you, Ajax
I work for San Jose State University. So I will just not comment on it. If you ain't got nothing nice to say, don't say nothin.... Jobs suck. There aren't any. Rent is too high. Why the hell do I live here? Been here all my life and I couldn't name one good reason. Hope you enjoy your stay.
Have you ever thought about becoming a real estate agent and trying to get people to move to San Jose??? Because you are really good at it!!! haha You should definetly be on the welcoming commitee for the city
San Jose generally has nice weather. And the food at the pregame tailgates is great. billreeves does wonders with the bbq grill in the parking lot. And not all the people are as negative as sj_quakes_fan.
Yeah, most of them are nicer. Like that gentleman who cut me off on the freeway, making "interesting gestures" and saying one word that starts with an F over and over again. Wonder what he was saying? I don't read lips so well. I'm only kidding, by the way. This hasn't ever happened to me.
Well, a lot of what was said about SJ is true. Yes, rent is high and the job market is pretty poor right now (where isn't it?) Also true, the weather IS generally good and there are a lot of things to do. The Bay Area offers plenty. You're 45 minutes from the beach in Santa Cruz...and, yes, the Quakes (then NASL) were a large contributing factor to my selecting SJSU. I'm an alumnus of San Jose State ('84) and I can tell you that the campus and downtown area have been drastically renovated. When I was there (walking to class through the snow, uphill both ways) you could find a derelict or a hooker on nearly every corner. Our football players didn't even go out alone at night. Now, the downtown area is a whole lot nicer and the campus is a far cry from what it was--some much nicer facilities. I LOVED living in San Jose even when it sucked downtown. It appears to be much improved now. I currently live in the North Bay but if I had to move again, I'd want to come back to San Jose. One vote "yea." p.s.-- the drivers mouthing an "F" word? They're saying "FISH!"
SJSU has something for everyone; enough gut classes to get a degree if you want and enough good professors to get a good education if you are willing to do the work. It is not a hotbed of school spirit however and was often referred to as Apathy U while I was there a decade ago. But if you like soccer SJSU has a team of their own (actually they have two). The men’s team has been doing pretty good the last few years. Three of their alums are playing in MLS (well I'm not sure Isaias Bardales plays for LA but he is still on the roster). The job market is tough and rents are high but not as high as they were a few years ago. Also be prepared for tuition and fee increases, and fewer classes to choose from, due to the California budget crisis. Sorry I don't have any better news but I have to live up to my moniker. - Dark Cloud SJSU class of 1994 PS: Be prepared to hate Stanford and Fresno State
Live in San Francisco instead. There's 1,000 times more to do and you'll have infinitely more fun. The weather isn't as good but if you get a place in the Mission or Potrero (eastern portion of SF) it's not so bad. That gives you relatively good access to Spartan too (about 45 min - hour) if you're serious about why you moving here. As for the economy in the Bay Area, it's highly cyclical but overall you couldn't pick a better economic growth engine on the planet. But we are deep in a down part of a cycle now. I think S.F.State is about equal academically to S.J.State though it's a total commuter school (whereas S.J.State is like 1/2 commuters).
Trust me, you don't want to live in Frisco, the commute to San Jose is pure hell, the rents there are outrageously high, the police force is corrupt and the mayor is a criminal.
??? Aside from the small amount of students in the dorms (some of which were recently torn down) and local apartments or frats, SJSU is a total commuter school. Plus there are a-holes who ride around on their little bicycles and stop traffic with their self-important, neo-hippie "Critical Mass", expecting you not to ram them. And, while it's cool you want to be a Quakes fan, we really don't need any more people moving out here.
Yeah, why not live in an beautiful city when rents are reasonable, BART and AC transit can get you around (but not to Spartan), good freeway access, great regional parks, great restaurants at any price, great music, bookstores, culture, and a population that really is diverse instead of just talking about it. Of course, I'm talking about Richmond, the east bay city where I live. San Francisco's not bad either. Well OK, our city council may not be the shiniest spoons in the drawer, but with term limits, politicians come and go. More to the point, Ajax, SJSU is one of the many fine universities here in the Bay Area. Tony
Yeah, San Francisco has a reputation to be a left-wing- hippie-schmippie city... But you know what? This situation is changing now. See www.protestwarrior.com - these guys are from San Francisco, too. We need more people like these in here... Welcome to San Francisco!
Spoken like a true San Franciscophobe, a common species that has long roamed (and loathes to leave the familiar confines of) Silicon Valley. The commute to SJ is a breeze on game day (assuming you have a car). Of course the rents are outrageously high, just like SJ. As for the mayor/police..........OK, Beerking has a point there. Ajax65, you sound like an adventurous person. I'm born and raised in Silicon Valley and a 1989 SJSU grad. I currently live in San Francisco and wish I'd moved here long ago. San Jose is not a bad place, but it's boring suburbia for the most part (I see you're from Jacksonville....). The Quakes are one of the few things I find redeeming about it these days (not that you'd be able to figure that out by reading the local newspaper.....). In any case, I don't think you can go wrong by choosing either of the state colleges in either city (I agree with the comments of sonofapitch, Dark Cloud, and asdf). If the priority is Quakes and school, period, SJSU would do fine (and you can go check out SF when the mood strikes). If you think you might want to get a little bit more out of your college experience here, you should definitely consider SF. Hope this helps. Good luck. --PaulChild
...Unless you're one of those people who move here, start companies, create jobs, does community service (bathe the homeless, clean up the urine they've sprayed on the public landmarks, that sort of thing), and runs for political office to destroy the machine. If that's the case, we reeeeeeeeeeeeeally need you!
Richmond?!? That came out of left field. You build a decent argument. Parts of Oakland share the same positive characteristics that mentioned for Richmond. In defense of SF, you guys are out of touch: rents are cheap now. And with rent control (rent control is a bad thing economically ... I'm not trying to defend it) you can tie in a cheap rent deal now for years to come. As for Critcal Mess, that's a thing of the past too. But when it did happen, as with any protest here, 90% of the idiot participants commuted in from the burbs for the occasion. None of them are natives here. By the way the commute to SJ would be terrible if you had to do it every day, but you wouldn't really need to go there at all except for Quake games once every few weeks at night when there is no traffic.
The PD is not corrupt.....dude shoulda come up off those fajitas, problem solved......and as for "Da Mayor", big pimpin aint against da law!
Commuting from SF to SJ is stupid. If you have an econobox, it will cost you $8 a day just for gas, and that is an outragious amount for a college student. And as a student, it would better you miss out on SF's distractions and save those 2-4 hours every day of your life that would be spent in the car.