Back in 2009 you could rent a house with a yard in a nice part of Palo Alto for ~2.5k/month (Or less, my wife and I were paying 1.8k at the time for a small but

Back in 2009 you could rent a house with a yard in a nice part of Palo Alto for ~2.5k/month (Or less, my wife and I were paying 1.8k at the time for a small but very nice house with a 1 acre yard). ~$100k (while still reasonably entry-level) went pretty far then.