Best neighborhoods in Palo Alto
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Ranked 1st best neighborhood in Palo Alto
"Great Traditional Neighborhood"
- NikkiDKatt
Crescent Park is one of those classic old-timey style neighborhoods, with tree lined sidewalks, nicely trimmed lawns and manor sized homes beautifully maintained. These homes are largely those tradit...
Ranked 2nd best neighborhood in Palo Alto
"Classic Flics and Cool Eats"
- NikkiDKatt
Ahhhh! University South.
Let’s just start with the restaurants. There are a ton of great ones here. Here are my top ten:
10. The Three Seasons: My spot for Vietnamese food. Favs are garlic nood...
Ranked 3rd best neighborhood in Palo Alto
"Every Bit as Good as University South"
- NikkiDKatt
The restaurants and fun don’t end north of University either. You have an almost equally great selection of restaurants and nightlife as in University South on the northern side. In fact, I just r...
Ranked 4th best neighborhood in Palo Alto
"Safe, family-friendly community"
- bayareabound
Bounded by Oregon Expressway, US Route 101, Alma Street and Loma Verde Avenue, Midtown is a relatively safe and family-friendly Palo Alto community. It is relatively large in size, stretching about 1...
Unranked Neighborhoods
"Great for Kids"
- NikkiDKatt
The main thing that brings me here is the Palo Alto Library—which is pretty good as far as public libraries go. Before I had gotten my student ID, I checked it out just to get some reading in and not...
"Beautiful Little Pocket Neighborhood"
- NikkiDKatt
This is a tiny little neighborhood right by campus and Old Palo Alto. There is not much to it, but I really love the homes in this neighborhood. There are lots of really attractive older homes—many...
""Well, if you must go to school on the west coast..""
- Shinebox
I am reminded of the quote from Frasier everytime Stanford is mentioned. While I am partial to the snowy Ithaca falls, I do admire Stanford and the beautiful campus that it has. The houses at colleg...
"Im in Love with a Barron!"
- NikkiDKatt
I house sat a professor’s house on a little cul-de-sac in this neighborhood over Christmas break. This is a great neighborhood. It is, first of all, just an incredibly beautiful neighborhood. It’s n...
"Clouds, Eats and Old Bungalows"
- NikkiDKatt
Not to be confused with the SoCal city of the same name, Ventura in Palo Alto is one of the more student friendly areas with a pretty strong commercial section as well.
Let’s start with the commer...
"Living with the dead"
- bayareabound
While keeping a kind of rural feel of isolation, Greater Miranda is one of the smallest neighborhoods in Palo Alto. In fact, it only encompasses about four residential streets (that end in cul-de-sac...
"For the Ivory Tower Set"
- NikkiDKatt
With its turn of the 19th Century homes and streets named after famous Americans (Melville, Whitman, Lincoln are some of the east west streets; north-south you get Brits like Cowper, Webster and Byron...
"Drab, upper middle-class"
- bayareabound
Duveneck, also known as St. Francis, is a lush green, middle-class Palo Alto community nestled against US Route 101. It stretches about 0.5 square miles of highly dense residential terrain, but it is...
"The Counter, Baume, the Anatolian Kitchen and Joannies"
- NikkiDKatt
S. California Street is the main drag here in Evergreen. I temped down here for a few weeks at the end of last summer so I got to know S. California Street pretty well. It is one of those commercial...
"Cool Circles of Homes"
- NikkiDKatt
Like many of the neighborhoods in Palo Alto, Fairmeadow has a ton of Eichler style homes with their distinctive flat roofs. Unlike most other neighborhoods in Palo Alto, however, the Fairmeadow neigh...
"Good Old Manors"
- NikkiDKatt
As the name indicates, Old Palo Alto is the historic neighborhood in Palo Alto. The homes here date largely from the 1920’s and 30’s, but they are mostly not the bungalow styles you might associate wi...
"A Garden of Idiosyncracy"
- NikkiDKatt
The St. Claire Gardens neighborhood, just to the north of the circular street plan of the Fairmeadow neighborhood with its cool
Eichlers, is an equally unusual neighborhood. It is aptly named a “ga...
"Middle Class Neighborhood by Palo Alto Standards"
- NikkiDKatt
I visited a friend who lives in this neighborhood this weekend. Charleston Meadows is the kind of neighborhood that if it were not in one of the most expensive spots in the country would actually be...
"Eichler Houses Galore"
- NikkiDKatt
Not to be confused with similarly spelled city in Southern California, Palo Verde is actually one of the Palo Alto neighborhood on the eastern end of town.
One of the big draws of this neighborhoo...
"Old-fashioned Eichlers"
- bayareabound
Although old fashioned, Greenmeadow is a quaint, family-friendly neighborhood that has succeeded in maintaining its historic order of the 1950’s. For perspective residents, most homes are owner-occup...
"New homes set against old ranch-style backdrop"
- bayareabound
Stretching from El Camino Real to the Foothill Expressway, Green Acres is a calmer, more low-key community than its neighbors and just so happens to be close to downtown Palo Alto. Its residential ae...