MOUNTAIN VIEW
Mountain View is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, 10 miles north of San Jose and 34 miles south of San Francisco. The city covers 12 square miles and is home to 71,995 people. It counts amongst its neighbors: Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale. The central location provides easy access to the entire San Francisco Bay Area and northern California cities. Mountain View prides itself on having attractive and well-built residential communities that are served with neighborhood parks and playgrounds, recreational facilities, quality education, and convenient shopping. Housing types include a wide range of styles and sizes to suite all preferences. In addition to having ownership opportunities there are a number of rental properties to suite divergent needs.
Mountain View is home to some of the finest recreational sites in the Bay Area. Shoreline Park is a 750-acre regional recreation and wildlife area that includes: an extensive waterway for water sport enthusiasts; a wildlife sanctuary featuring many rare migratory birds; a world class eighteen-hole championship-level golf course; a 25,000-person capacity Amphitheatre; a lakeside café and a full service restaurant. Followers of the performing arts will enjoy the city's Center for the Performing Arts (adjacent to City Hall), and book lovers can take advantage of Mountain View's state of the art 70,000 square foot library. Downtown Mountain View is the location of several specialty shops, coffeehouses, bookstores, and sidewalk cafes. It is also the venue for annual events such as the Arts and Wine Festival, the Farmer’s Market, the A La Carte & Art, and the city’s summer concert series. Other cultural sites in Mountain View include the Computer History Museum, the Jehning Family Lock Museum, and the historic Huff House (built in 1929 by the first postmaster of Mountain View).
Mountain View is one of only three cities in the State of California with an AAA credit rating which means the City has been formally recognized as having a solid and diversified tax base; a very strong financial operation; and having a low debt burden. Mountain View is proud to have a solid small-business base as well as being home to many of the world’s most pioneering organizations in the field of High-Tech, Biotech, and Telecommunications.
February 2010 Median House: $637,500
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