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Ask your new employer for a realtor recommendation, talk to him/her. You have not internalized how expensive the area is and how bad the traffic is. The bridges

by RNeff 13y ago

Ask your new employer for a realtor recommendation, talk to him/her. You have not internalized how expensive the area is and how bad the traffic is. The bridges and the freeways are maxed out during commute. Each city has good areas and not so good areas often next to each other. Newark and Fremont are at least an hour each way to MV. Live close to MV or close to a CalTrain Station. For schools, your choices are Palo Alto, Menlo Park, or a private school.

api 13y ago
I've encountered this kind of sentiment elsewhere too. It's incredible... not even New York could make a solid six-figure offer almost look like a Wal-Mart wage. The school situation is puzzling to me. The tax base should be fine, and the majority of the schools I see get high ratings on a nationwide basis. Is this genuinely a problem, or is a Valley resident's idea of a bad school one where the majority of the graduates do not get into top-ten universities? Cause my idea of a bad school is one where you have to go through a metal detector to get in and the majority of their graduates go nowhere. :) Great tip about the traffic too. I went off Google directions, and I'm guessing those times are for light non-rush-hour traffic.
- quadlock 13y ago
  when you inch along in traffic, you can be 15 mins to your destination for a long time.
ad_bfl 13y ago
I agree, we moved to Belmont for the schools but have both our kids in private school - hence we are broke. One not obvious issue with schools is the local demographics are NOT always in sync with the student body demographics. Menlo Park which has a high income tax base has a mixed group of students. The wealthy families put their kids in private schools, the result is a student body out of sync with the local demographics. I would of never expected this but one of our close friends is a teacher in Menlo Park/Atherton and has to put her kids in private schools vs the local public schools in Menlo/Atherton district.

by RNeff 13y ago

api 13y ago

I've encountered this kind of sentiment elsewhere too. It's incredible... not even New York could make a solid six-figure offer almost look like a Wal-Mart wage. The school situation is puzzling to me. The tax base should be fine, and the majority of the schools I see get high ratings on a nationwide basis. Is this genuinely a problem, or is a Valley resident's idea of a bad school one where the majority of the graduates do not get into top-ten universities? Cause my idea of a bad school is one where you have to go through a metal detector to get in and the majority of their graduates go nowhere. :) Great tip about the traffic too. I went off Google directions, and I'm guessing those times are for light non-rush-hour traffic.

quadlock 13y ago
when you inch along in traffic, you can be 15 mins to your destination for a long time.

ad_bfl 13y ago

I agree, we moved to Belmont for the schools but have both our kids in private school - hence we are broke. One not obvious issue with schools is the local demographics are NOT always in sync with the student body demographics. Menlo Park which has a high income tax base has a mixed group of students. The wealthy families put their kids in private schools, the result is a student body out of sync with the local demographics. I would of never expected this but one of our close friends is a teacher in Menlo Park/Atherton and has to put her kids in private schools vs the local public schools in Menlo/Atherton district.