Palo Alto is an amazing
community that you will love to become part of.
I have spent over a decade in Palo Alto and can attest that it offers a
great quality of life at all stages of your life. Before I had children, my
wife and I would walk to the downtown area for excellent restaurants and window
shopping. Now, we take our three
children to the many classes and activities that the City of Palo Alto offers
for young children including swimming, ballet, language, gym, and music
classes. We soon look forward to walking
our children to the excellent Palo Alto public schools. Palo Alto offers an amazing combination of
natural beauty, great weather, educated citizens, and excellent job
opportunities that normally can only be found in large cities. I anticipate that you too would enjoy being
part of the vibrant community of Palo Alto.
Palo
Alto History
Palo Alto is named for an
ancient redwood tree (“El Palo Alto,” meaning high tree) that Spanish explorers
camped under in the late-1700s. Palo
Alto was not much of a city until the formation of Stanford in 1891. Upon Stanford’s formation professors starting
moving into North Palo Alto, and the downtown of University Avenue was
created. The budding city was
incorporated in 1894.
The city’s rich history
has been followed by an even richer present, for now Palo Alto commands some of
the highest priced real estate in America with median home prices over $1,550,000. However the reasons for these high prices,
which will only continue to climb, are the many attributes that Palo Alto
offers. These attributes create high
demand for a very finite supply of homes.
Even though Palo Alto is
a city of only 60,000, it is world famous for many reasons. These include being home to Stanford
University and many Silicon Valley companies.
Stanford was recently ranked as the second best university in the world
(behind Harvard) and has excellence in almost all fields. Palo Alto is located in the heart of Silicon
Valley and is home to companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Facebook and
VMware and the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.