Coverage
Every part of Cupertino, plus the neighbors.
Most of the city is about 17 minutes away, from Garden Gate at twelve to Inspiration Heights at twenty-four. Saratoga, Los Gatos and the rest of the west valley run a little longer, and each area page carries its own figure.
Cupertino neighborhoods
Inside Cupertino
Rancho Rinconada
~13 minThe flat grid that Stern and Price laid out between 1950 and 1953: 1,562 houses of eight hundred to a thousand square feet, poured on slab with no crawl space under them, an open carport instead of a garage, a wide picture window at the front, and a front door that has been repainted every decade since. About thirteen minutes from the van.
Local pageFairgrove
~14 minThe tract of roughly 220 houses built in 1960 and 1961: flat rooflines, glass walls facing the garden, and a walled entry court at the front with a gate of its own, so there is a gate to get through before there is a front door to open. Fourteen minutes from the van.
Local pageMonta Vista
~17 minThe old western edge of the city where the streets begin to climb: larger lots than anywhere else in the flat part of town, driveways that run well back from the road, prewar cottages standing next to houses rebuilt in the last five years, and a school boundary that puts the median near $3.55 million against roughly $2.8 million a street outside it. Seventeen minutes, which is exactly the citywide average.
Local pageGarden Gate
~12 minThe close-packed grid west of Stevens Creek Boulevard: small lots, single-story houses set near the sidewalk, driveways nose to tail along the curb, and a much higher share of rented houses than the city average. Twelve minutes from the van, the shortest arrival on this site.
Local pageSeven Springs
~16 minThe south of the city around Seven Springs Parkway: streets laid out from the 1970s onward, later and larger houses than the postwar grids, attached garages, clusters set back on private lanes, and gates serving a group of homes rather than one. Sixteen minutes from the van.
Local pageOak Valley
~19 minThe newer streets climbing the western slope: larger houses built to a small set of plans, an entrance gate serving the tract, intercoms at that gate and again at the front door, and driveways that pitch upward from the road. Nineteen minutes from the van.
Local pageCreston & Pharlap
~15 minThe northern blocks between Homestead Road and the Sunnyvale line: flat streets of postwar tract houses with attached garages, mature trees over the sidewalk, and a boundary that puts some front doors in Cupertino and the ones facing them in Sunnyvale. Fifteen minutes from the van.
Local pageInspiration Heights
~24 minThe foothill streets above Cupertino: houses set well back on climbing lots, private driveways that run a few hundred feet from the road, a gate at the road on some parcels, and views that come with the longest drive of any neighborhood on this map. Twenty-four minutes from the van.
Local pageAcross the west valley
The cities beside it
Saratoga
~21 minThe town over the southwestern edge of the map: houses on large wooded lots along roads that climb into the hills, deep eaves and older front doors, and the short run of shops and restaurants along the village street. Twenty-one minutes from the van.
Local pageLos Gatos
~24 minThe town at the southern limit of the coverage: a downtown of shops, restaurants and offices above them, residential grids either side of it, and streets that climb steeply toward the ridge. Twenty-four minutes from the van, tied with the foothills above Cupertino for the longest run on this site.
Local pageWest San Jose
~16 minThe blocks immediately east of Cupertino: dense tracts built through the fifties and sixties, attached garages and carports, arterial boulevards between them, and the large shopping-center lots that sit at their intersections. Sixteen minutes from the van.
Local pageSunnyvale
~15 minThe city over the northern boundary, reached in a few minutes along Homestead Road: postwar tracts on one side of a street and newer apartment and condominium blocks on the other, with a downtown of its own further north. Fifteen minutes from the van.
Local pageSanta Clara
~19 minThe city to the northeast: long residential grids of mid-century houses, later infill between them, and small commercial strips along the through roads with shops, offices and workshops behind them. Nineteen minutes from the van.
Local pageLos Altos
~18 minThe town to the northwest: low, wide houses on generous lots under mature trees, quiet streets with no through traffic, and a compact downtown of shops and restaurants a few blocks across. Eighteen minutes from the van.
Local pageOpen 24 hours, 7 days
Say the year the house was built, and the rest of the call is short
Cupertino and the west valley, every hour of the day. The age of the door decides the work and the work decides the figure, so the number comes back on the call with the $89 service call and the hour already inside it, and it is the number on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, in writing.