Cupertino is a mid sized city. It is about 45 minutes drive to city of San Francisco. It is close to the heart of Silicon Valley. Cupertino offers a short commute to most high tech firms, including the headquarters of HP, Apple, Trend Micro System, Symantec and Borland. Cupertino has joined Milpitas as the second city in the silicon Valley where the majority of residents is Asian.Cupertino is best renowned for the quality of its schools for good students and teachers with end result of great API scores.

 Many schools have won state and national recognition for their academic excellence. The Computer education is one of best part. The Vice President Al Gore once visited theMonta Vista High School and Homestead High was honored at a White House ceremony. While Cupertino schools receive most of the attention, the recreational activities are plentiful as well also.

The city itself offers over 200 activities from cross culture acitivities for different backgrounds to  the soccer teams. There are a lot of  after-school music programs. Residents enjoy the city events such as the arts and wine festival, Heritage parade , Summer Shakespeare concert, sun down movies , Spring Cherry Blossom festival etc. The Cupertino has 13 parks, a nature preserve, and a racquet club as well as bowling and ice-skating. The local Junior College, De Anza, offers many classes for local community. The Cupertino weather is mild from the winter average temperatures from  50 degrees to summer averages around 80 to 90 degrees.

Cupertino has a wide variety of housing choices. The view homes  are more expensive, around 1 to $2 millions in price. The rest city homes are more moderately from a condo of $400k to a single family home for $900,000. This spring I sold a newer Cupertino homes in Seven Spring for over 1.3 millions. While schools receive most of the attention in Cupertino, recreational activities are plentiful as well. Residents enjoy the city events such as the arts and wine festival, Heritage parade and De Anza Days under pleasant skies with winter average temperatures of around 50 degrees and summer averages around 80 degrees. Cupertino is a great place to live!