[ashdksnndck]

Redwood City is 20 mins from Palo Alto and has a lot of houses for $1-1.5M. $3M means you are paying extra for something optional. It’s not the minimum requirement.

Lots of people are paying millions extra just to live up winding roads on a hill, where the commute is longer, and you need a geotechnical engineer to design your patio.

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Redwood City has terrible schools (relatively) and many people consider excellent schools for their kids as hard requirement.

[ashdksnndck]

School quality in the Bay Area is a red queen’s race, and a pressure cooker environment is not good for the kids. Apparently the solution is grade-separating Caltrain.

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it’s more like 30-50 min with traffic

[ashdksnndck]

30 mins - possible with traffic, especially to a far corner of Palo Alto.

50 mins - what on earth? Take the train. Even a bicycle would be faster.