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Campbell Selected as West Coast's Second-Best Suburb
NBC Bay Area ^ | 1/14 | Tamara Palmer

Posted on 01/14/2016 2:39:18 PM PST by nickcarraway

Campbell is being called one of the best suburbs to live in on the West Coast.

Sunset Magazine has named the South Bay city (Pop. 40,584) a runner-up to Claremont, in Southern California, as best suburb and declared that it is starting to emerge from the shadows of nearby San Jose, Los Gatos and Saratoga with an active downtown area and a revamping of the Pruneyard shopping center.

And, with a median home price of $908,000, the publication declares the real estate market in Campbell to be "almost reasonable for Silicon Valley."

Other comparable runner-up suburbs are out-of-state choices: Castle Rock, Colorado, and Gilbert, Arizona.


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1 posted on 01/14/2016 2:39:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Flying Circus; skeeter; Vendome; martin_fierro

Ping


2 posted on 01/14/2016 2:39:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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980k per house. Will obama send in invaders to that community?


3 posted on 01/14/2016 2:43:24 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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No need, they are already here


4 posted on 01/14/2016 2:44:32 PM PST by Magnum44 (I dissent)
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To: nickcarraway

Traffic nightmare central


5 posted on 01/14/2016 2:47:14 PM PST by gwgn02
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Which street?


6 posted on 01/14/2016 2:48:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
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My god, $980,000 average house price?!

Maybe I’m wrong here but given that price in California, I start to wonder how much of a house you’re getting for that price?

Besides that, the state of California (and local municipalities - after all, it is the Bay Area!) is prboably darn near raking you over the coals in terms of taxes.


7 posted on 01/14/2016 2:55:20 PM PST by MplsSteve
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Best places to live?

Hmmm. Wondering how many Trayvons, Chachos and Mohamads live there?

Or is there too much White Privilege going on?


8 posted on 01/14/2016 2:57:50 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Is Ted Cruz a US citizen? Yeah? Then Shut Up and Sit Down.)
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Most look like 3 BD, 1 or 2 BA for 900k on Zillow.

Most 2 BD apts of 900 sq ft are going for about 2200/mo

9 posted on 01/14/2016 3:05:06 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Campbell CA is 2.8 percent black.


10 posted on 01/14/2016 3:06:06 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: nickcarraway

I’d prefer a place above the snowline in Arizona.. Keep some of local the varmints away.

Campbell is a high priced sardine in a can we know as Silicon Valley.

It’s always nice to have options but I’m not into sardines. ;-)


11 posted on 01/14/2016 3:08:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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(Gasp)

And they called that a great place to live? How racist!


12 posted on 01/14/2016 3:08:57 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Is Ted Cruz a US citizen? Yeah? Then Shut Up and Sit Down.)
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They haven’t overlooked a thing have they? Horrific. Truly horrific.


13 posted on 01/14/2016 3:16:42 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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‘Campbell CA is 2.8 percent black.’

Yes, but they’re not authentic black because to afford to live in Campbell they’re obviously successful, educated, and decent Americans. According to Jesse and Al once a black person leaves the plantation they’re not actually black anymore.

So these poor people are now just plain old Americans instead of hyphenated Americans who need help from Democrats.


14 posted on 01/14/2016 3:40:30 PM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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Campbell has really gotten much nicer in the last 30 years.
The new downtown area really helped.


15 posted on 01/14/2016 3:42:14 PM PST by Zathras
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Maybe I’m wrong here but given that price in California, I start to wonder how much of a house you’re getting for that price?

Two bedroom townhouse. My mom lives in Campbell.
16 posted on 01/14/2016 3:48:40 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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I haven’t been there for 50 years but I always liked Campbell. They had some nice shops. I grew up in Willow Glen and Cupertino.


17 posted on 01/14/2016 3:49:28 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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Maybe I'm wrong here but given that price in California, I start to wonder how much of a house you're getting for that price?

$900-thousand is the new normal for homes in California, in nice areas. Meaning, good places for raising kids without crime, gangs and trailer-trash neighbors. There's a lot of remodeling going on by folks who can't afford to switch houses with the corresponding huge hike in taxes. If you bought long ago, you hold onto your home and do big remodeling projects to keep your property taxes low. As long as you don't completely tear it down, you won't get reassessed as a new home. So, old homes may be worth $900K but people can't afford the taxes on another home if they had bought at existing previously at $40K, hence remodel. This further drives up the cost of homes on the market due to reduced quantities for sale.

18 posted on 01/14/2016 4:41:09 PM PST by roadcat
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THE BEST MEXICAN FOOD ON THIS OR ANY OTHER PLANET

19 posted on 01/14/2016 6:14:48 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Campbell?

Nice area but, Saratoga might be best....If I won the frickin lottery...


20 posted on 01/14/2016 9:26:55 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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