“Please avoid the area”
I agree - I once drove from Santa Clara over to East San Jose to visit a typewriter repair store [Yep, that old, probably 52 years ago]. Got to the neighborhood - Nope, I Do Not belong here. I KNOW IT, THEY KNOW IT. Never went back.
Okay, but Valley Fair isn’t in East San Jose. It’s not in a bad neighborhood. It’s by the freakin’ Winchester Mystery House, and is one of the most upscale malls in the Bay Area.
Valley Fair is right at the border with Santa Clara. You must be thinking of Eastridge.