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Clarence Rosario
10/28/09

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Good to see that some things never change in this go-go digital world.

Money still can't buy taste. #jawedkarim
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raincoaster
10/28/09

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When I grew up, communes were for the POORS! Now, get offa our lawn! #jawedkarim
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pureblarney
10/28/09

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I can haz application to be troaffee wife?
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GORDONGARTRELLE
10/28/09

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Even worse, Jame Gumb is parked out in front of your house. #jawedkarim
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burbed
10/28/09

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It's normal to pay at least $550 per square for non-ghetto houses in Silicon Valley.

In Palo Alto, the norm tends to be $800 per square plus.

You might appreciate some of the houses here:

[www.burbed.com]

Today's entry is pretty good... $1.5M for a 5br/3.5ba. You pay $15k a year in property tax. And you get to live next door to a Museum of Rusted Trucks In a Driveway - who pays only $1k a year in property tax!

Scroll down further for the house that recently went for $1294 per square foot. ($885k for 684 sqft.) I think it's closer to where Zuck lives.

Ah, to go back to the peak of the housing bubble days when houses like these would go for twice the value. Oh well. Now Silicon Valley is all affordable. :( #jawedkarim
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Lymed
10/28/09

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Have you looked at real estate prices in Palo Alto? Most American suburbanites would be forced to live in a closet. Seven months out there and I thought I got a deal buying a house in DC. #jawedkarim
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nirreskeya
10/28/09

@Lymed: Very true. Many of the houses in the neighborhood being discussed here are in the 600-1200 sq. ft. range and they were almost certainly fetching seven figures in 2006/2007. They've come down since then, but it's still insane. I see one that's 1100 sq. ft. for $1.1 million and one 684 at $885k. I'm fairly certain this is among Palo Alto's cheapest single-family-home neighborhoods.

Also, it is called College Terrace, not College Park. It's correct in the tags, just not within the article copy.
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