hillsborough

They're not going to send their kids to SF public schools, so they move to Hillsborough or Palo Alto for the schools.

It's not that all public schools are crappy in California (Palo Alto, Hillsborough are great counterexamples), but a lot of them are.

A little far from SF, perhaps, so there's a point in Hillsborough's favor, but if I could afford it, I'd be in Atherton or Hillsborough for sure.

Same thing in hillsborough and atherton.

> a better reference for those eras would be the Hillsborough disaster where coverage by the Sun got it boycott national newspaper.

In a place like Hillsborough or Palo Alto, there may be some hope of a retired or free-time competent executive being a local resident and doing a good job for non-economic reasons.

Of fit you up as they tried to do to a government minster see plebgate or if your a victim of a disaster at a football ground see the long running Hillsborough disaster.

Some rival goods are in shorter supply even for relative winners than they were in the past (even the relatively rich in the Bay Area don't have very nice houses; a $10mm house in Hillsborough is nice, but it's essentially a $1.5mm house elsewhere.) We'll put more and more value into information goods and services, relative to a much more slowly growing physical economy.

(and weather, but mainly schools); the mortgage differential between SF and a place like Hillsborough or Palo Alto, combined with $30-50k/yr per child for 14 years or so of schools (to go to private schools in SF, vs.

The great thing about the US is you actually have everything from dense SF downtown to fairly "German" Palo Alto to Atherton/Hillsborough/Portola Valley, all within the same job market metro area.

"When Hillsborough County Sheriffs deputies stopped the SUV, their own two-way radios were jammed."

It's called "moving to Piedmont, Orinda, or Hillsborough", I believe.

Woodside (#4), Portola Valley (#7), Hillsborough (#9), and Los Altos Hills (#14) are all in Silicon Valley; Atherton would rank ahead of Woodside according to the "population > 1000" list but apparently was left off for unspecified reasons.

If you want to be able to commute to SF and don't mind cooler weather, you choose Hillsborough.

Those who had/have chic apartments and townhouses then head off to their mansions in Hillsborough.

Places in Hillsborough, a rich area of SV, use in excess of 300 gallons per day to water their lawns, vs other areas.