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San Jose Facts and Places:

Newspapers are San Jose Mercury News, Metro Silicon Valley
San Jose Sports teams are Sharks, Earthquakes, Spartans
Local Schools are San Jose State University, Santa Clara University

About San Jose, California

     That city 45 minutes up the freeway from San Jose may get more attention and more tourists, but San Jose plays a bigger role in the economy of the Bay Area, and really, the world. It’s in San Jose and the surrounding suburbs to the north—collectively nicknamed Silicon Valley—where the computer revolution began, and later on, the Internet and Social Networking revolutions. This is where it all started and where the greatest concentration of tech innovation still occurs, even as it continues to disperse around the globe. Credit the brainpower fueled by San Jose’s proximity to Stanford University for this pivotal role in the national and world economy.
     Besides having more national and global importance, San Jose is bigger than San Francisco. Its population of 1,007,000 is 20 percent greater than San Francisco’s and the South Bay metro area totals 1.8 million residents. It’s also bigger in acreage, with its 178 square miles dwarfing San Francisco’s 49. While its more glamorous neighbor is a vertical city, San Jose is horizontal, with a few downtown highrises the only real exception. It’s a city of suburban-like neighborhoods, yet exhibits every bit of the diversity of California’s other big cities: nearly one-third of residents are Hispanics and Latinos, in addition to large Indian and Southeastern Asian communities.
     It’s fitting that one of San Jose’s biggest attractions is the Tech Museum, a monument to the technological innovations that turned this sleepy city of commuters and fruit farmers into a metropolis of computer engineers and entrepreneurs. The city’s other biggest attractions include the historic Winchester Mystery House (a bizarre 160-room mansion), Santana Row, Children’s Discovery Museum, San Jose Museum of Art and Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum/Planetarium. The city’s most popular events include the San Jose Mariachi & Mexican Heritage Festival, Rock n Roll Half Marathon, Cinequest Film Festival and 01SJ (a future-focused festival). 
     New restaurants are bars are opening all the time to serve the sophisticated tastes of the San Jose area’s well-educated residents, especially at upscale Santana Row in central San Jose. Many feature outdoor tables; San Jose enjoys 300+ sunny days a year with an average annual temperature of 70 degrees. The climate is a bonanza for outdoor types, who only need to drive a short distance to a wealth of county parks, state parks, open-space trails and recreational bike paths—and not much farther to reach the delights of Santa Cruz, Monterey and, well, San Francisco. And for those who prefer spectating, sports fans rally around the Sharks, the most successful major professional sports team in the Bay Area for the last few years.
     But surely San Jose doesn’t measure up when it comes to history, right? Well, no. San Jose is California’s oldest settlement, dating back to 1777. All in all, a case could be made that the Bay Area should be called the San Jose Bay Area.

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