🆕 Pros and Cons of Living in Santa Clara [2022]

Pros and Cons of living in Santa Clara. Curious what living in Santa Clara is like? Santa Clara features a population of around 130,000 residents and is located in the center of Santa Clara County. A large tech center, Santa Clara is home to a number of top tech firms like Intel, Nvidia, and Applied Materials. Santa Clara has some great benefits for families such as family-friendly neighborhoods, good private and public schools, and fun entertainment options for all ages.
Before you jump right in there are a couple of things you should know before you buy a home in Santa Clara. In this video, I go over some of the Pros and Cons of living in Santa Clara
Pros:
- Housing diversity
- Homes in Santa Clara are more affordable than homes in the west, such as Sunnyvale, Cupertino, and Mountain View
- Living in Santa Clara is convenient and is centrally located with good highway access
- Santa Clara Schools are generally in good proximity to the homes inside their enrollment boundaries
- Assortment of restaurants with cuisines from all over the world
- There are close to 40 parks in the city of Santa Clara
- Santa Clara has three libraries
- Santa Clara has its own private power company, Silicon Valley Power, which produces electricity for all its residents
- Santa Clara features Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center and Medical Offices, which is one of the largest hospitals in the South Bay
- Santa Clara has close proximity to San Jose International Airport, SFO, and Oakland International Airports
- Levi’s Stadium
- Great America
- Senior Center
- Santa Clara University
- The city of Santa Clara hosts an assortment of events
Both Pro & Con (depending on how you see it):
- A large number of contemporary townhomes and condos
- There are lots of different areas and neighborhoods in Santa Clara
Cons:
- 65% of all Santa Clara single-family homes were built in the 1950s and ’60s - not many new ones
- Some housing in Santa Clara is more expensive and older than the Santa Clara homes to the East
- No Trader Joe's
- No downtown
- City lack consistency
- Besides the San Tomas Creek Trail, there are not a lot of Walking or Biking Trails
- Located in the flat part of Silicon Valley
- There are some FEMA-designated flood zones in Santa Clara that will require you to carry flood insurance
- No major Golf Courses in Santa Clara
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Pros & Cons of Living in Santa Clara
01:07 Pro - Housing Diversity
01:28 Con - Vast Majority 50's & 60's Tract Homes
01:54 Con - Not Many New Sigle-Family Homes/Large Homes
02:35 Con - Santa Clara Homes are Expensive
03:17 Pro - More Affordable Homes than Homes to the West
03:44 Con - More Expensive & Older Homes than Homes to the East
04:40 Santa Clara Zipcodes
05:18 Rivermark Community - Unique Developments
05:35 Con - Rivermark Surrounding Area is not Consistent in its Makeup
06:04 Pro or Con - Townhomes and Condos Developments
06:21 Pro - Living in Santa Clara is Convenient
06:57 Pro - Santa Clara is Centrally Located/Has good Highway Access
07:55 Pro - Schools
09:50 Pro - Shopping
10:13 Con - No Trader Joe's
11:13 Looking for a Scenic Tour of the Peninsula?
11:26 Santa Clara's Newest Biggest Development
11:42 Pro - Restaurants
12:30 Con - Lack of Central Downtown
13:36 Pro - Parks
14:48 Pro - Libraries
15:16 Pro or Con - Neighborhoods
16:27 More Pros
18:33 More Cons
19:35 Outro
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[@user-tn5pn6fq2f]

Best video ever made about a city. Thank you.

[@deepakagrawal3671]

Very decent way of presenting the content. To the point, answers many of the questions, good list of pros and cons. Thank you and looking forward for more.

[@santaclaraliving]

Thank you Deepak. Hope you subscribe I have lots of great videos coming in the pipeline.

[@edvargas3105]

Great work!! Very descriptive and detailed explanation of the pros and cons of living in Santa Clara.

[@santaclaraliving]

Thank you Ed.

[@lwhite530]

Grew up in Santa Clara in the 80’s, 90’s and early Y2K. It’s not the same anymore…. I’m in Morgan Hill and try not to go to my mom’s house if I don’t have too

[@boobtubeakatv1296]

Li br,air y = library
Commonly mispronounced
as lie berry 👀 😎
There sure is a lot of automobile exhaust in the area, thank Mother Nature for that 2pm-10 pm westerly wind that cleans it out...
I guess thats a Con 🤔
PS Very Well done...
Speaks of most things about living there except the high costs in both rents, food, water and the crowds everywhere you go...
But, it flows well unless your in the wrong commute...

[@angelanatasha4418]

Would never wanna live there too expensive and too overpopulated you might as well live in La lol

[@chewiebaby]

Yuck, think I'll pass.

[@santaclaraliving]

OK. where do you live?

[@chewiebaby]

@@santaclaraliving I live in the most beautiful place in the world. :)

[@santaclaraliving]

Kauai?