Despite all that, Mountain View is still a dreary wasteland. It's a great place if you want to buy a $1.5MM home and raise kids, but not if you want to enjoy yo

Despite all that, Mountain View is still a dreary wasteland. It's a great place if you want to buy a $1.5MM home and raise kids, but not if you want to enjoy your youth. Even if the big behemoths stay down there and employ the people with the $1.5MM homes, the new exciting startups will probably keep popping up in SF and the East Bay. -- Former Mountain View resident now living in Berkeley