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a lower median income than surrounding towns The "surrounding towns" are East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Mountain View. When has any of these had a higher medi
by masonic 8y ago
a lower median income than surrounding towns
The "surrounding towns" are East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Mountain View. When has any of these had a higher median income than Palo Alto?
- gumby 8y agoThrough the late 1990s except EPA (since it became a town in the 80s). Nowadays there are still some homeless folks, but there used to be plenty of people living in homes on public assistance along with everyone else downtown, at cal ave etc. I remember a Palo Alto person-on-the-street question about "what's your favorite shop?" and the person replied "Woolworth's, because I can afford things there". No woolies or other discount shops downtown any more. The SROs are now boutique hotels. I used to live in Professorville in a house with 10 people and a band in the basement and we got along with our neighbors just fine. Even over-loud parties were handled in a friendly fashion. Nowadays the cops get called on anything, kids jump in front of trains...too much freaking out instead of freaks. What happened to SF has been exported to Silicon Valley as well.