Palo Alto Ave, Downtown North

Palo Alto Avenue is a bit of a neighborhood anomaly in that it breaks the mold of the nearby grid-like section of roads. It winds around downtown, strategically circumnavigating the traffic, confusing enough that passerbys will not use it as a substitute to University Avenue, and residential enough that people will want to live here. Given that this is the first connector street on the north side of University Avenue, it is not quite as secluded and private as some of its neighbors, but is very nice nonetheless.

The houses here, while a bit close together, are very nice, and were surely once intended as modest residences until the Silicon Valley boom drove up the price of real estate, never to return to its original level. The major benefit of living here is the proximity to downtown, paired with the fact that the neighborhood still maintains shreds of a residential area. You probably won't be able to buy here unless you are working in technology and making six figures, but this could be a fun place to rent or to raise a family.