San Jose - Post Report Question and Answers

What do you wish you had known about this particular city/country before moving there?

I wish I had known how outrageously expensive it was going to be and how awful the traffic would be. The traffic discourages many people from venturing out into the country for weekend trips as it's so unpredictable. - May 2024


Nothing. - Sep 2020


Traffic, cost of living, how hard it is to get a car imported into the country, how relatively insular people here are, though super kind, towards outsiders. And how not very pretty down town San Jose it, most of it is blearingly concrete looking. - Jul 2018


How expensive it is, and that it sort of sucks in general. - Dec 2016


How expensive it is. How bad traffic is, everywhere. - Feb 2016


Didn't realize how expensive it would be. - Apr 2014


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