There are sections of San Jose that act more citylike in terms of commute. North San Jose, the area of North First Street just south of 237, for example. I had that commute for a while and it was vile.
San Jose isn't all that suburban in terms of culture. By that measure, SJ, SF, and Stanford are cities. By commute, Mountain View is a city and SJ is a suburb. Looking at how big the lawns are and how many trees there are, and comparing with (say) New York City's borough of Queens, the entire 101 corridor is one city briefly interrupted by the suburb of Atherton. Measuring the effectiveness of public transportation, most of the peninsula is farmland.
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San Jose isn't all that suburban in terms of culture. By that measure, SJ, SF, and Stanford are cities. By commute, Mountain View is a city and SJ is a suburb. Looking at how big the lawns are and how many trees there are, and comparing with (say) New York City's borough of Queens, the entire 101 corridor is one city briefly interrupted by the suburb of Atherton. Measuring the effectiveness of public transportation, most of the peninsula is farmland.