[titanomachy]

There is no way that's true. I looked at numbeo.com and it says Sunnyvale rents are 60% higher than boulder. Insert your favourite Silicon Valley suburb in place of Sunnyvale.

[madengr]

When I was there 2 years ago, the cheapest house was $890k. The mean was about $1.3M. These are $200k houses in normal markets.