A recent Forbes study looked at the 46 most populous cities in the country and compared health metrics including heart disease deaths, opioi...

There are some leaderboards you just don't want to be at the top of, and this is one of them. The San Jose metro is the most expensive p...

WalletHub ranked over 180 US cities based on 45 metrics related to raising a family. These include everything from the cost of housing, qua...

While real estate prices are falling all around the country, you have to wonder why prices are still super high in the heart of Silicon Vall...

Thanksgiving is one of America's favorite holidays and US families spend an average of $325 per person (!) during Thanksgiving weekend. ...

San Jose and the San Jose metro (the true definition of Silicon Valley) have become synonymous with innovation. One of the ways we can gauge...

Forbes recently compiled a list of America's Coolest Cities. They started with the 60 largest Metros in the US and then ranked them on s...

Here is a fun stat for summer. San Jose is the 2nd best area for swimming in the US! We have the most swim members per 1,000 people and the ...

Today we have another one of those Saturday Stats to really be proud of. According to NerdWallet--which is based in SF by the way--San Jose ...

San Jose continues to get recognition for being a great city to work in. An analysis by Glassdoor ranks the San Jose metro as the #1 place i...

San Jose just earned another badge for work-related accomplishments. CareerBliss has proclaimed that San Jose is rated the happiest city to ...

Where are the best places to realize the American dream? Check out the list below. San Jose comes in as the 3rd most upwardly mobile region ...

The ACSM American Fitness Index is a scientific snapshot of health and fitness at a metropolitan level. On a national level, San Jose ranked...

In the first quarter of 2014, median single-family home sales hit $808,000 in the San Jose metro. This is enough to rank it as the most expe...

Here is one of the best Saturday Stats we could ask for. The San Jose metro has been identified as the best city in the nation for small bus...

Here is a Saturday stat I was not expecting. Despite being the 7th most congested city in the US, San Jose is the 2nd safest city in the cou...

Silicon Valley's unemployment rate dropped again last month to a stellar 5.4% (5.3% if you eliminate San Benito County, not sure why it ...

There are a whopping 56 billionaires that are living in the Bay Area. What surprised me is that there are more living in Silicon Valley as o...

Today marks this blog's fifth anniversary, which is quite a long time in the local blogosphere! I was feeling a bit nostalgic, so I deci...

San Jose just nailed the top stop in a study listing the best big cities for jobs in Forbes. Our metro area had 982,000 jobs in 2013, job gr...