Often more expensive in the Peninsula. And then you have situations like Redwood City where the schools are awful but you still have bad house prices and all yo

Often more expensive in the Peninsula. And then you have situations like Redwood City where the schools are awful but you still have bad house prices and all you can do is hope that by the time a kid is old enough for school that the influx of new tax dollars from Prop 13 property taxes that were reset to market rates has given them enough budget so they don't suck as much when your kid is ready to enter. And don't forget that any new measures that help schools tend to try to be percentage based in terms of how taxes are assessed, so new owners disproportionately shoulder the burden of improving things while those who have been here the longest and arguably gotten the most value out of the system pay a pittance. The whole situation is horrible.