Is San Jose, CA zip code 95131 near Oakland Rd and Montague Expy a good/safe place to live?
86838
I live in San Jose and that zipcode is in north San Jose near Milpitas. It's a good area. San Jose is the safest big city in the country so even the scummier areas are relatively safe.
637960
"low 40s high 90s all year around easy to find jobs, affordable renting, friendly people"???????\n\nAre you kidding? If this place existed it would have a population of 50 million. And then the rent would no longer be affordable due to supply and demand, and the people would no longer be friendly due to congestion and traffic problems, and all the jobs would be taken.\n\nGood luck finding this utopia.
476087
Depends on how much you want to spend to live in that neighborhood. Mt. Baker (which is south seattle) has a great sense of community there, but it's pricey. Other good areas include Ballard, Columbia City (depends on what area), Greenlake, and the list can go on. I would check out statistics as far as crime goes for the areas. There was a recent article about the neighborhoods in a magazine called "Seattle Metropolitain", perhaps you can do a search online and find it. Good luck!
83368
The San Francisco bay area. You could get a good job in S.F. and live a little cheaper in a near by city/suburb. Of you could get a job in a number of other cities, from oakland to san jose. There is always work in the bay area and it's a great place to live. Lots of different people and lots of things to do. You can learn so much there.
92361
1065 The Alameda\nSan Jose,CA 95126\nEasy access from highways 280, 880 and 87\nCall (408)287-4284
559837
Broomfield, Northglenn, Superior are good northern suburbs. Parker, Highlands Ranch are good too (south and west of Denver). Stay out of Lakewood, Littleton, Westminster, Commerce City, Erie.
914069
Go to South Side or Oakland.  You would probably have your best chance there.
1003226
dont know....i dont think there is such a zip code out there.
1129754
526 N Rexford Dr\nBeverly Hills, CA
220090
got to http://www.monster.com\n\ndo a search by location.  When it displays the results, at the top of the page it will give you the option to input your zip code and do a search for the closest opportunities to that zip code.
222800
Forbes.com has a feature called Wealthiest Zip Codes of America based on median house sales. You can find some zip codes from the Northern California area especially Silicon Valley\n\nhttp://www.forbes.com/2005/04/26/cx_sc_0426home.html?partner=links\n\nThese California areas are in the top 10\n\n1- Atherton CA\n2- Montecito CA\n3- Rancho Santa Fe CA\n4- Newport Beach CA\n6- Ross CA
380133
123 fake st!! Good luck!!
299180
3000 w. Alameda Ave.\nBurbank, CA\n\nSorry, don't know the zip
465028
http://www.nsopr.gov is a good place. You type in your zip code and it will tell you the closest ones.
677232
I'm assuming you mean Santa Clara, CA. If so, please check the source box for some links.
128494
What's in a ZIP? In this case, some of the priciest real estate in the country.\n\nFrom Beverly Hills to TriBeCa, from notorious enclaves of mansions and lush lawns to little-known niches of wealth, we looked at ZIP codes around the country to find the ones where home prices were the highest last year.\n\nMany of these neighborhoods are rarified places, of course. They are close to beaches and golf courses and prime yacht moorings--or at least within spitting distance of the power centers that are the sources of great wealth. Thanks to their high tax bases, these areas also usually offer better schools, health care and public services--not to mention such amenities as better exotic car mechanics, caterers and gardeners. The homes are often proof of the good life, if not always good design. Penthouses and mansions abound, filled with the most expensive fittings, such as antique marble mantles, gunite pools and hand-painted hallways.\n\nBut there were some surprises. The list is testament to the costs of living in California, with half of our top ten ZIPs in that state, and nearly two-thirds of our top 25. It's not such a shock when you consider that California home prices increased nearly 100 percent between 1999 and 2000, according to the U.S. Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. But the real estate market in some locations has made a u-turn since the dot-com bust--several of the most expensive places are in or very close to San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, the best known ZIP code in California, 90210, also known as Beverly Hills, ranked only No. 15.\n\nThen there were the places that indirectly fed off of West Coast money. Two of our top 25 ZIPs were in tax-free Nevada, but not in Las Vegas, where home prices shot up more than 40% between 2003 and 2004, according to OFHEO research. Instead, they were old-money resort bastions around Lake Tahoe.\n\nAnd while more diverse than postal areas such as the Upper East Side of Manhattan or Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, have more than their fair share of high-priced properties, urban areas usually ended up lower on our list. That's because those ZIP codes are more diverse than those that encompass exclusive and relatively homogenous suburbs where home prices don't dip below $1 million.\n\nFor example, a townhouse might easily sell for $15 million in Manhattan, a far higher price per square foot than a Montecito mansion, but a sliver of a studio on the next block may ring up at $300,000, bringing down the median home price. An exception is TriBeCa, a trendy neighborhood in downtown Manhattan, where commercial spaces have been turned into large, luxurious lofts for the hip and well-heeled. Here, in 10013, last year's median home price was more than $1.6 million.\n\nIn case you ever wondered, ZIP stands for Zoning Improvement Plan. A relatively recent innovation, the codes only came about in the 1960s when the U.S. Postal Service decided it needed to figure out a better way to manage an increase in population, as well as an influx of business mail.\n\nBefore that, the postal service only used addresses, although large cities have had postal zones since 1943. Now, there are more than 40,000 ZIP codes. The first of the five numbers refers to a broad region, from zero for the Northeast (draw what conclusions you will) to nine for the West Coast. The second and third digits narrow to population centers, and the last two represent individual post offices or postal zones.\n\nA ZIP code can include a very wealthy neighborhood along with a less-pricey one, which means there are some limits to our list. This may be why areas such as Jupiter Island, Fla., and New York's Hamptons didn't make the cut.\n\nAlso, though median home price is a solid gauge of a real estate market, it doesn't exactly measure the top prices in an area. The median is where half of all sales were above and half were below. So, an estate could go for $30 million and another
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I grew up in San Diego!  Don't live there now, but I have much to say on the matter.\n\nDepends on how much you want to spend.  San Diego is not cheap.  Don't live farther south than Chula Vista unless you don't mind illegal aliens running around your property.  National City is a no-no unless you don't mind a little gang activity.  Stay away from the Navy bases, bad influences abound outside the gates of military bases.\n\nI would consider a gated community in the Mission Valley area or go north towards La Jolla/Del Mar area.  Of course, that will cost you a pretty penny.  \n\nBe wary of the traffic and factor that into your commute.  Lots of beautiful and safe places but they're generally farther away.