Aside from articles in the NYT and Mercury News about Palo Alto-area children committing suicide due to stress, it's a great place to expose your children to ec

Aside from articles in the NYT and Mercury News about Palo Alto-area children committing suicide due to stress, it's a great place to expose your children to economic opportunity. Is it a nice place to grow up? That's a different question. It's pleasant, it's safe, it's got a walkable town square. Bicycling from Palo Alto to Mountain View is not terrifying for an 11-year-old. I'll say it's sufficient. It's better than where I grew up but that's not meaningful. I agree that the nicer neighborhoods of almost any other metro in the U.S. would result in a better childhood due to a better sense of community and less chance of the parents being house-poor because they spend 70% of their disposable income on their mortgage. Your comment was germane to the conversation because it rightly contrasts the bizarre practice of sending house owners requests for sale with the low intrinsic value of the property. A rational person should question why a tiny unrenovated house next to a loud commuter train line that operates 19 hours per day would be worth $2.1 million.