We'll start in the village, I mean University Ave:
And the surrounding housing:
University Avenue is a great place to shop and get lunch (if you don't mind paying $10+ for lunch) it is semi-urban upper-class shops arranged in a sort of old-fashioned town center style. The nearby streets feature lots of unique houses from the town's wealthy history, all relatively small, but worth a fortune. And of course the thing that really sells it to me is the sidewalk style; add 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit and you'd never know the difference. Well there are a few hints:
Palo Alto is a bit denser (possibly due to the fact that it's on a narrow peninsula!) so there are a handful of taller offices and apartments. There are also several signs of the startups that call this place home. Facebook has several offices downtown because they're really too big to fit in Palo Alto anymore. Rumor has it that they are going to move out of downtown and into an office park somewhere around the end of the year.
Leaving downtown P.A., lets venture into the similarities between Pomona and Stanford:
A fancy gated entrance makes your school so much more respectable. And since we live on the west coast not the east, we can reserve vast swaths of land for a natural arbor.
No prestigious university should be without a majestic tower:
Here's Pomona's:
As you can see, Stanford has many massive stone buildings an lawns. A la Pomona:
Both campuses are beautiful, interesting places; gives some insight into why you might want to spend all those years of hard work in school and in post doctoral work to get a professorship. Here's a few other interesting photos from Stanford:
Microsoft has made some sizable donations here:
The first one is hard to read it says "Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems". When Josiah saw this his response was, "Well, I was thinking of Stanford for grad school in computer science, but I don't know if I could handle going to classes in the William H. Gates CS building."
HP has also contributed (sorry about the second one I must have been in a hurry!):
Folks from the 5C's will probably recognize this style from some of the art buildings on campus:
And this style makes an appearance both places as well:
One last connection is our local supermarket "The Willows Market":
It's a lot like Wolf's; a small independent market, great high quality Boar's Head meats and cheeses in the deli.
Anyway, there you have it; decide for yourselves.
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