Best places for the rich and single in the Bay Area
Thanks to Burbed reader BK for this find!
Population: 67,503
Single: 30.4%
Median family income: $113,735
Ever dream of flying? Give it a try in this Silicon Valley town, which serves as the epicenter of Northern California’s hang gliding and paragliding community. Milpitas has one of the largest ratios of residents to parkland in the San Francisco Bay area. All that wide-open green space and a warm, Mediterranean-like climate make it great for outdoor sports all year-round, and young singles enjoy hiking, fishing and cycling in Ed R. Levin Park. Plus, the dog park there can be a great place to find puppy love. –A.C.
Go Milpitas! What? No mention of… The Smell?
Population: 133,876
Single: 30%
Median family income: $110,276
Geek is chic in this hub for tech companies, where you’re likely to meet an engineer from Yahoo!, Honeywell, Palm or Lockheed Martin at the latest Tweetup or “Tech and Beer” happy hour. Flirt over the latest gadgets and a cup of Joe at the Sunnyvale Art Gallery’s café, where Thursday is open mic night. Or take a romantic walk through the historic Murphy Avenue area downtown — a popular place for bar-hopping, open-air summer concerts and farmers markets. –A.C.
Congrats Sunnyvale! Nothing says chic like big box office buildings that you have to cross a giant parking lot to get to. Nope, nothing at all.
Population: 73,093
Single: 34.8%
Median family income: $109,215
With NASA and Google in town, Mountain View is the perfect place to find a rocket scientist. Googlers alone range from former neurosurgeons, CEOs and puzzle champions to alligator wrestlers and Marines, so there’s no shortage of interesting dates. But since eligible bachelors outnumber women in this town, the savviest singles may want to head to wine-tasting classes, get involved in a local charity, or try yoga — instead of standing around in a bar. –A.C.
Woot Mountain View! Wait… eligible bachelors outnumber women in this town? Only this town? No way!
BTW, where is this photo taken?
Population: 110,200
Single: 34%
Median family income: $105,516
European-style streets lined with upscale shops, spas and restaurants give this Silicon Valley `burb a sophisticated appeal. Stroll along Santana Row for luxury boutiques and bars. Like many of Santa Clara’s neighboring towns, you’re likely to meet wealthy techies here, but that’s not all. Since the 49ers are headquartered here, you can also rub elbows with eligible single football players and cheerleaders. –A.C.
So true. You can’t walk a foot without bumping into a 49er.
Ok, confession: I did not know Santana Row was in Santa Clara. It’s so confusing over there.
Population: 948,279
Single: 31.3%
Median family income: $100,219
There’s a reason San Jose’s residents jokingly refer to their city as “Man Jose.” Since men outnumber women in Silicon Valley’s high-tech jobs, the dating scene is disproportionately male. Meet the dot-com millionaire of your dreams in the city’s downtown area, which offers a technology museum, several parks, free concerts, an outdoor ice rink in the winter and — great for those nerdy dates — the world’s largest outdoor Monopoly board. –A.C.
Dot-com millionaires? Whoa… dated. But nonetheless, congrats to Man Jose!
August 6th, 2010 at 10:00 am
The Mountain View picture is taken on the Stevens Creek trail. Gorgeous place; I know it well. Used to commute to work on it. (well, from Caltrain to work.)
August 6th, 2010 at 10:20 am
For some reason this brings to mind what they say about M.I.T. – the odds are good but the goods are odd.
August 6th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Valley Fair has a Santa Clara address for some reason, but Santana Row just across Stevens Creek is in San Jose. In “downtown” Santa Clara, what you’ll meet are simply SCU students and local families
August 6th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Valley Fair straddles the two cities. Every so often you hear of skirmishes over the sales tax revenue. It’s split; I think they go by the actual city lines so each store reports to the city they are technically in.
Wikipedia mentions it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_Valley_Fair#History
August 6th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
The copy for these articles is simply awful. For some reason they make me feel that I’m watching a badly produced video from the 80′s with cheesy smooth jazz playing in the background.
Its funny that people seem to go gaga over these cities. All I can think of is how I can’t wait to get home from there at the end of the day. By the way- classy shot of San Jose. They have a Marriot! Woo-hoo!
August 7th, 2010 at 12:12 am
That’s one reason you don’t ever want to be stuck in a job without a travel component…unless you enjoy fighting over a middle aged Asian woman.
August 7th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Travel component? RE, don’t you know you can get them to come to you? Mail order brides aren’t exactly a brand new concept.
January 15th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Really, Real Estater & nomadic? So, youthful, beautiful, bright, principled, soulful, substantial, responsible, kind-hearted ‘middle-aged Asian’ [correction: AMERICANS of Asian descent] women who are there because they chose a path of sacrifice & hard work, instead of partying/social climbing, aren’t worth fighting over? Yet, fighting over self-absorbed, entitled, status-seeking, “Playboy” (read: “non-ethnic”) wannabes are?
Comments like these make me realize how little respect respectable American women (of non-European heritage) get. These are comments I’d expect in Hicksville, U.S.A. What a shame to hear it from the so-called “educated elite.” Please educate yourself beyond the ivory tower and recognize how destructive to society your “harmless” banter is — it uncovers a deeper, disturbing devaluation, dehumanization of others.
January 15th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Don’t feel too bad, #8. In a few years, RE’s wife will be a middle-aged Asian American woman. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; in fact, he refers to her as a trophy wife. (BTW, the mail order thing was a joke. Have you seen any of the recent docs on the topic? The women are from Russia typically. You’re being much too serious for a satire blog.)
I didn’t realize women were still to be “fought over” in this day and age. Sounds rather archaic to me.