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I think the large amount of traffic during rush hour around those highway exits say otherwise. Several megacorps with tens of thousands of employees each have
by mahyarm 13y ago
I think the large amount of traffic during rush hour around those highway exits say otherwise. Several megacorps with tens of thousands of employees each have campuses in the region. It's an artificial area kept artificially suburban in a long stretch of continuous suburbia.
- NoPiece 13y agoThat's not true - the largest "megacorp" in Palo Alto is HP and they only have around 2000 employees. The only employer with more than 10k is Stanford, and the only employer with more than 5,000 is the Stanford hospital. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California#Top_employers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California#Top_emplo...
- mahyarm 13y agoI said the area, where they all share a similar development policy. You have to include Mountain View, Menlo Park and Sunnyvale. They are all contain Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Symantec, etc. Not to mention many several hundred employee companies such as Palantir and a bunch you haven't heard of.
- NoPiece 13y agoYou don't have to include them because they are separate cities with separate governments and separate growth plans. And they don't have similar development policies. Palo Alto is different from Mountain View which is different from Atherton. Mountain View has WalMart and Costco and Google. Palo Alto limits retail to 20k sqft, so there are no big box store or even supermarkets. Atherton just has a bunch of big houses. The differences are great - it lets people pick what the like and live there.