San Jose is California’s third largest city, having a metro area that includes Sunnyvale and Santa Clara – creating a combined population of 1,952,185 people. The current median household income for San Jose is $139,892. San Jose is located in the Santa Clara Valley, just south of San Francisco. Owing to the many highly successful high-tech companies located in San Jose and the neighboring communities, San Jose is considered the heartbeat of “Silicon Valley” and is home to the largest concentration of millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. (per capita). If you want to excel in a technology career, San Jose is a good place to get started. The city architecture is all rather new, so San Jose buildings tend to represent the last 50 years, with many buildings having been erected only in the last 2 or 3 decades. There is a historic district downtown, which dates back 100 years and features a variety of shops and restaurants, all at home in historic landmark buildings. San Jose residents enjoy a vibrant multicultural community, punctuated by Hispanic food, music, cultural events, and art murals. If you enjoy the performing arts, San Jose has its own ballet, opera, symphony, and repertory theater. The city also hosts an annual film festival that draws 60,000 people and a popular jazz festival. The greater San Jose metro area is home and host to several large employers, including Adobe, Hitachi, Samsung Semiconductor, Netgear, Zoom Video Communications, Roku, PayPal, eBay, Acer, Cisco Systems, Altera, Western Digital, IBM, Hewlett-Packard Ent., Extreme Networks and many others!