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For those outside Silicon Valley why might think, "you could live like a king with that kind of money", here is a potential home you are looking at ($2M, 1200 s
by riantogo 6y ago
For those outside Silicon Valley why might think, "you could live like a king with that kind of money", here is a potential home you are looking at ($2M, 1200 sqft, 7 rated schools): https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/3785-Park-Blvd-94306/home/1149731 https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/3785-Park-Blvd-94306/hom...
- legerdemain 6y agoSomewhat visible in some of the outdoor photos: a railroad right-of-way is located directly behind this house, with at least two trains per hour from early morning until midnight.
- dcolkitt 6y agoConveniently located for commuters!
- erik_seaberg 6y agoThe train will be moving. Good exercise.
- splaytreemap 6y agoAnd for those that aren't familiar with Caltrain, that train blasts its horn two or three times before each stop and the horn is so loud that you can hear it from a mile away. Living as close to the train as that house is would be miserable.
- dilyevsky 6y agoI would be more worried about thick layer of diesel dust on all surfaces (including your lungs) but hey they are going electric in next 20 years for sure
- legerdemain 6y agoThat's OK, Atherton residents are against Caltrain electrification. We must maintain the quaint character of our multi-billionaire enclave!
- dekhn 6y agoI could easily afford a home in the bay area if I was more tolerant to noise. I live 1.5 miles away from the train and I can hear it quite clearly (the horns, as well as the track noise), but it's distant.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 6y agoPalo Alto is a lot more expensive than most of the Bay Area, so this is a somewhat cherry-picked result.
- dilyevsky 6y agoYou do realize it’s the price of a lot? That house is a teardown
- betaby 6y agoI'm under impression everything is a teardown yet people live in those. Same in Vancouver and Toronto.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> everything is a teardown In the Bay Area, "cockroach-infested teardown." FTFY. (The Bay Area is a warm climate, so cockroaches are legion.)
- imtringued 6y agoPretty much every single family property in Silicon Valley is waiting to get torn down and replaced with a 3-4 family property or more.
- I_AM_A_SMURF 6y agoYeah but the houses nearby are not that much better, look at this: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/3561-Park-Blvd-94306/home/1760641 https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/3561-Park-Blvd-94306/hom... $2.7M for a 100x50 lot and a 4 bedroom? That's mansion money pretty much anywhere. Hell you can even get a nice place in NY for that much.
- dilyevsky 6y agoI mean the fact that rank and file eng can’t afford PA house is not puzzling to me. More surprising is why Boulder or Vancouver have similar range of prices
- kazen44 6y agowhat i always wonder about this massive income inequality in silicon valley is, where are the non high paying people living? you know, people who are not highly trained professionals with advanced degrees but who are still required to make up a community. (bakers, school teachers, nurses, technical craftsman, caretakers etc). It is my understanding that those people make signficantly less money (more on the "standard" level most western-europeans make. say 30kEUR a year), But where do these people live?!
- standardUser 6y agoWith roommates, in rent controlled apartments, in subsidized housing, in bad neighborhoods most people don't frequent. And some in homes they bought before housing prices skyrocketed to absorb all of those high tech salaries. Or just far away with long, miserable commutes.
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- tolbish 6y agoThey live with their families.
- I_AM_A_SMURF 6y agoYeah I started the interview process with Apple and they mentioned that we would have to relocate to the bay. Wife and I looked up house prices and we were like NOPE.
- dmode 6y agoOr you can live in this house, which is >2k sq ft, on 0.53 acres, in a 10 rated school district and only 16 miles from SF https://www.redfin.com/CA/Orinda/28-Tara-Rd-94563/home/1914782?utm_source=ios_share&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy_link&utm_nooverride=1&utm_content=link https://www.redfin.com/CA/Orinda/28-Tara-Rd-94563/home/19147...
- riantogo 6y agoWhy do you think it is relatively so much cheaper? There has to be some reasonable explanation? Maybe it is because it is not Silicon Valley? Maybe commute to Mountain View or Sunnyvale takes 4hrs off your life each day?
- dmode 6y agoYou can easily access SF jobs, but South Bay jobs are harder to get to. But it is no different than living in Oakland or Berkeley when it comes to commute
- cko 6y agoSerious question. As someone who has lived in his car voluntarily for 6 months, what's the feasibility of just buying an Airstream and towing it behind a used Ford F250? And parking somewhere closer to work?