No ‘For Sale’ Sign? Silicon Valley Buyers Aren’t Deterred
This isn&#x27;t a very substantive comment, but as a former (brief) resident of the area, I&#x27;ll make it anyways and take my licks for it:<p>It blows me away what houses in SFBA go for. They aren&#x27;t very nice houses! They&#x27;re often cramped, the lots are tiny, the block landscaping isn&#x27;t nice, nothing is walkable, nobody is all that close to public transportation, the surrounding areas are all strip malls and trunk roads, traffic is a nightmare.<p>At least when you over-pay for an apartment in Brooklyn you&#x27;re in one of the greatest cities in the world. What&#x27;s, really, the upside of living in Palo Alto? Palo Alto is nicer than Sunnyvale, I guess? But as a college town, it&#x27;s not even as good as Evanston, let alone Ann Arbor.