| ▲ | onlyrealcuzzo 6 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Menlo Park has a higher population density than Austin... The majority of it is not Bel Air... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | alephnerd 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> The majority of it is not Bel Air... Menlo Park was never a "middle class" town. The 101 was always the (literal) redline. The median household income is $210K [0] and it's the same demographic, unlike historically lower middle class but now upper middle class San Mateo [1]. A Menlo Park home address that is on the correct side of the 101 opens the same doors in the Bay that a Bel Air address does in Los Angeles or an Austin Hills address does in Austin. Rich doesn't equal conspicuous, especially in the Bay Area - "Wealth is quiet, rich is loud, poor is flashy" [0] - https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/menloparkcityca... [1] - https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanmateocitycal... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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