Help please: South Bay area (~San Jose) housing search

[Don Corleone]

Wouldn't Danville, Oakland or Richmond represent more than an hour drive, each way, to get to Santa Clara if there isn't traffic? Wouldn't it be closer to 2 hours in traffic?

I'm leaning towards a couple of neighborhoods within San Jose itself at the moment:

Blossom Valley (looks to be the best so far, all things considered)
Almaden Valley
Willow Glen
Santa Teresa

Do all of these sound like nice neighborhoods? Each have some good schools, and each have some not so good. I'm actually okay with the schools not being the greatest, provided the neighborhood is safe and family friendly, as there's a good chance the little Corleones will be going to parochial schools regardless.

Thanks for the suggestions so far everyone.

[Decker]

Wouldn't Danville, Oakland or Richmond represent more than an hour drive, each way, to get to Santa Clara if there isn't traffic? Wouldn't it be closer to 2 hours in traffic?

I'm leaning towards a couple of neighborhoods within San Jose itself at the moment:

Blossom Valley (looks to be the best so far, all things considered)
Almaden Valley
Willow Glen
Santa Teresa

Do all of these sound like nice neighborhoods? Each have some good schools, and each have some not so good. I'm actually okay with the schools not being the greatest, provided the neighborhood is safe and family friendly, as there's a good chance the little Corleones will be going to parochial schools regardless.

Thanks for the suggestions so far everyone.

Lmao I was kidding about Oakland and Richmond. You DON'T want to live in those places! Trust me.

As for travel...we have this lovely system called BART! Tho it appears that it doesn't reach SJ or Santa Clara so it's kinda silly but it's a gas saver if ya ever want to go to the city haha...

As for your neighborhoods you are looking at...I've never really been through them but Almaden is pretty good and I think Willow Glen... not sure tho...