This article says that San Jose is also the more expensive city to rent in.
Can we please redirect our ire toward San Jose as the out-of-touch, overpriced, misgoverned city that no one sane wants to call home?
That's not a selling point for people that are looking for city living. There's a tiny walkable downtown area but that's it. (Though I haven't been there in years and years and years, so maybe that's changed.)
San Jose is, however, significantly more focused on legacy corporations (Oracle, Cisco, IBM). It's also the city of subcontractor companies and rent-a-developer jobs. It has basically zero "tech enthusiast" culture of meetups, reading groups, hackathons, and tech communities.
My experience with people from San Jose is that they like beer and church.
That's an odd stereotype for one of the least-religious places in the US.
As in, as recently as last Friday, I spent an entire dinner night out eating steamed dumplings and overhearing this exact conversation. I've heard it in restaurants and I've heard it in cafes and I've heard it from people just chatting outside. Discussing their admiration for their pastor, or comparing notes about the churches their friends attend. I can easily expect to overhear a "church conversation" by just going to a social place on any given day.
It must be some kind of little-known secret that South Bay is really, really churchy.