05/08/2026
✨☀️If we haven’t met yet, I’m Bethany! I relocated to the Bay Area 7 years ago! At the time, I had my 5 and 11 year old going into middle school and kindergarten! It was a WIIIILD ride!! My husband was starting a new job and that meant he’d be living here solo until we found Home..☀️✨
Relocating is hard. That’s a fact. But relocating while trying to navigate school districts and neighborhoods all while trying to be close to work, with less traffic or NO traffic, can be even harder! When we moved up here 7 years ago(still seems insane!), I was doing what everyone does; I was on Zillow, Redfin, trulia etc and everything between. Trying to find a home with no traffic to and from my Hubbys office, short distance to schools etc. Zillow was saying schools were these, while Trulia and Redfin were saying they were other schools.. or a mix of the schools.. The problem is the district remaps the districts with no notice. Or, without enough notice that these apps can’t keep up.
We didn’t know where the flow of traffic gets really thick, where the grocery stores were- and how about a pharmacy?? We looked EVERYWHERE!! We were flying out here every weekend to look at places from Los Altos to East San Jose… in one day.
AND for people not in the bay…. That’s like driving from Santa Monica to Woodland Hills at 2pm during the week. Yeah…Absolutely not!!!
We needed someone who kept up with all this info, And we didn’t find them.. yeah yeah.. we googled. Didn’t help much.
I could not imagine doing this again if I were coming from somewhere else, like Seattle, Oregon, Washington or even somewhere as far as Texas. No way.
Luckily I have figured it out, so you don’t have to!
My school guide is particularly helpful, but I’m not just sending that out w***y nilly! DM me and I send it to you.
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Xo
Bethany
Ps. None of this post was created using AI.
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Bethany Ruelas- REALTOR
Serving Silicon Valley
818-912-1840
DRE 02356279
KW THRIVE, Cupertino
