I bought my house in Mountain View right after Larry Page announced that hey intends to bring another 10-20K employees to the Mountain View campus. It's just a

I bought my house in Mountain View right after Larry Page announced that hey intends to bring another 10-20K employees to the Mountain View campus. It's just a pure numbers game. You can't have a single employer bring in that many people and expect everyone to commute in. There is always going to be a population that can afford and will pay to live closer to campus. Also, as the population of Googlers age, there will be pressure to move to the suburbs after they get married and have kids. Also, there's lot of new development in Mountain View that will make the city more appealing to live in. If and when the monorail to Google (http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/13/mountain-view-studying-automated-transit-system/ http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/13/mountain-view-studying...) arrives, this will make downtown Mountain View even more appealing. Mountain View is now broaching the prices that Palo Alto was. Sunnyvale is the next Mountain View.