I used to live in Mt View, and even attended Foothill for a while. I was doing okay when I left in 2000, making enough to even shop at the Palo Alto Mall specialty shops sometimes.
Wonderful place to live, but very expensive. I got what amounted to a huge raise when I moved to Maryland.
There is no way the writer could live there for $25,000 per year. East Palo Alto, maybe.....
Three-quarters of Palo Alto used houses are ring bought by rich foreigners, mostly from. Communist china, many all cash transactions. The average price is $2.4 million, and Palo Alto has several suburbs with higher prices than that. It is one of the most expensive places in America. So yes, a Walmart job can it be expected to cut it there. The fellow needs to use his Walmart job as a means of
Getting by while he studies and acquires salable skills to earn more. If he can’t get by there he can ask to transfer to a Walmart in a thousand communities, some quite nice , with far lower costs of living than Palo Alto. But aS long as he is there, he has a top notch community college at his disposal , one of the very best in America. He can start there.
Anyone who lives near a free or almost- free college as highly rated as Foothill— and with such a vast number of courses and programs — and doesn’t take advantage of it, especially when the college is open- door so anybody and everybody are welcome to attend — a person who doesn’t table advantage of this incredible resource to improve their qualifications and earning capacity in the job market— is foolish. It’s that simple. Http://www.foothill.edu/news/fh-facts.php