Nice area to live in Silicone Valley?

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Moving to Sillicone Valley, pretty flexible with the location. Looking for a newer, pleasant, clean area with a good public High school. Our price range for the house is $800 to one million. Would not like a polutted area with shabby buildings. Preferably easy 20 min. drive or so to high tech circuit design companies.
Thank you very much for the advice that you may have for me.

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I love Mountain View. It is a lively city adjacent to Palo Alto without the attitude (or altitude) of Palo Alto. PA turns up its nose at box stores and chains and delays commercial ventures by tolerating the not-in-my-back-yard antics of community groups. While PA is loosing its tax base, Mountain View has added to it's revenue with Costco and many other big money makers. Mountain view also has a relatively new performing arts center, a nifty new library, new jail, new city hall -- Palo Alto has meetings and laments! Google just added very quickly free wireless Internet all over Mountain View and Palo Alto keeps funding expensive internet studies. Ho hum. Palo Alto schools are rumored to be very good with high test scores but it's part gene pool and many people pay for private tutoring to give their kids a boost. Mountain View has Castro Street with oodles of great restaurants and it's a lively, diverse, and dynamic place to live. The city government actually goes out into the neighborhoods to listen to what people want and need with appropriate city entities and they follow up. It's mid-way between San Jose and San Francisco on the peninsula. It is nearer the bay which tempers the climate by a couple of degrees meaning it may not freeze in Mountain View while it well could in Los Altos. A small thing a gardener would notice.

Twenty years ago, property in Mountain View was vastly cheaper than Palo Alto. The gap is narrowing. Two years ago a small 3/2 tract house in a modest neighborhood was $500,000 and today that house is $700,000. The higher prices bring a new more refined look to what was an ordinary neighborhood. And the differential still exists but it is narrowing and the MV schools are improving.

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If you're a single male, don't go. If not then I have no suggestions, I just thought I might add that you'd never have another date for the rest of your life. Can't remeber the source of the study but Silicon(e) Valley is the lowest male to female ratio in the US, probably the world.
Do you mean Silicon Valley? If so and you're looking for a good public high school, try Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Gatos, or Los Altos. Be warned, however, that your price range won't buy you a big home in Saratoga or Los Gatos, though both are lovely residential areas and within your commute. Cupertino has more options, but it is rapidly becoming overgrown with condos.

If you're willing to compromise somewhat on the high school, try Mountain View, Santa Clara, or Sunnyvale. Your money will go further there.
Go to www.mlslisting.com and search thru county Santa Clara County when you do the searches it will show you how the area is also
aside from saratoga, los gatos, and cupertino....there are good schools in evergreen valley and within ur price range for houses....
here's the link for prices of houses www.mlslistings.com