Having too many jobs in Mountain View means many commuters, and super high housing prices meaning most workers (even Google employees) must commute from different places. So it's not making anyone less dependent on the car.
However, the situation for long-term resident (especially home owners) is not that bad because if they don't care about the tech industry and just want a quiet place to live, they can easily flip their house for a couple millions and buy a small castle somewhere else.
That wouldn't be a problem at all if Mountain View was willing to permit residential build-outs. Sadly, like most of the Bay, they want the money from the good jobs but also believe the people who have those jobs should live Somewhere Else.
No. you won't believe. But unless you are a MV resident your opinion doesn't affect MV - so you are welcome to continue to disbelieve while MV decides our future
Having too many jobs in Mountain View means many commuters, and super high housing prices meaning most workers (even Google employees) must commute from different places. So it's not making anyone less dependent on the car.
However, the situation for long-term resident (especially home owners) is not that bad because if they don't care about the tech industry and just want a quiet place to live, they can easily flip their house for a couple millions and buy a small castle somewhere else.