How are rental/buying costs, generally a good area to live?

Are you currently living in California. If so you are probably somewhat familiar with the cost of living.

weekend hicking trips, proximity to nice mountaneous roads to let the car breath sunday mornings, etc? =)

I think Cupertino has the reputation for being a good school district, therefore housing is a bit more expensive than the surrounding "cities" (really tiny cities) like Sunnyvale and Santa Clara and Mountain View... but don't take my word on it since I don't have any children.

Great Asian food in Cupertino and the surrounding areas... Hwy 280 is sort of fun to drive as well. If you want curvey, you can take a quick drive down to Santa Cruz.

Well, it is close to the Stevens Creek County Park which is great for hiking, biking, etc. Easily accessible to Skyline Blvd through Saratoga, which is a great drive. Interstate 280 allows easy access to San Jose (downtown is about 15 mins away in light traffic) and north to SF, about a hour away. I-280 is considered to be less congested than 101 or 880, the other major freeways in the area.

If you're not very familiar with Santa Clara County, Cupertino is expensive, higher than Sunnyvale and Mountain View, Campbell, etc. Mostly single family homes, some condos & apartment complexes. This is attributable to the school system which is considered to be good.

If you like Asian food, it's a good place to be, both in terms of restaurants and food shops, like the Ranch 99 Market, Tin Tin Supermarket, Marina Food.

I work in Cupertino, seems like a nice suburbian place. I like bigger cities though myself.

lynbrook

I'm class of 99

Incidentally, Palo Alto HS's mascot is also the Vikings. Yep, I went to Paly.

c'mon...a turn signal ticket for $190???? Cupertino is suberbia, so unless you're a middle aged man with a lot of money, youre going to get pulled over for the stupidest reasons....argh I HATE CUPERTINO no joke...there is bad karma there

cops have nothing better to do than pull you over for stupid sh*t. Los Altos is the same.

Cupertino doesn't have their own police force. So they contract with another city's police department for traffic enforcement.

Every year the contract comes up for renewal, so if the cops from the city that have the contract don't write enough tickets (presumably to cover the cost of the contract), they lose out and another city takes it.

So these cops have no attachment to the city and every reason in the world to set up speed traps and write BS tickets.

Could they be from the Santa Clara County sheriff's office? At least the Cupertino police vehicles say "Santa Clara County" on them...

btw, I live in neighboring Sunnyvale, on the other side of Homestead Road...