Comments on: “Mayfield Mall developer could be bowing out”

By: Pralay

Pralay — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:59:51 +0000

It is no secret that Stanford still gives preferential treatment to Palo Alto students.
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Ha ha! This got to be similar to Chuckie multi-timezone, multi-country, multi-million-dollar mega-project – something exists only in Chuckie’s parallel universe.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:01:00 +0000

I know I know; I just kid
Sunnyvale is quite horrid
If madhaus really loved her kids
she’d come up on some 94303 digs

By: RealEstater

RealEstater — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:56:37 +0000

anon,

There’s a long history of close ties between Stanford and Palo Alto. Palo Alto was initially created to attract people to attend Stanford Univerisity. There’s a neighborhood called “Professorville” because that’s where many Stanford faculty resided. It is no secret that Stanford still gives preferential treatment to Palo Alto students.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:46:12 +0000

indeed, you see
for when you apply to a university
they look at your zip code with great scrutiny

By: RealEstater

RealEstater — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:33:47 +0000

madhaus,

Any of your kids plan to apply to Stanford? If so, GPA and SAT scores won’t cut it. They need to be well rounded. All things being equal, Stanford gives preference to Palo Alto residents, BTW.

By: madhaus

madhaus — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:00:28 +0000

um, madhaus? Isn’t this proximity? The fact that a commute from the Peninsula is easier to San Francisco than from the East Bay doesn’t stop him.

And rumor has it, that Cal school in the East Bay is pretty good.

nomadic, I was simply responding to a claim so inane it lays mainly down the drain.

Yeah, Cal is a great school, no argument about that. People who actual care about prestige would pick Stanford over Cal and pay more money to live near the former over the latter. I’m not necessarily agreeing with them, but I see they are voting such with their dollars.

By: WillowGlenner

WillowGlenner — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:14:12 +0000

Microsoft, like all big lethargic companies is probably laying off all these workerbees who are doing all the work while this massive amt of deadwood hangs out at the VP level. Anyone can see MSFT is the classic big bloated company, they don’t love engineers anymore like they used to and big surprise their products now SUCK. And they didn’t used to, sorry but there was a day when MSFT had the whole industry captive with better products that were cheaper than anybody else could make.

By: nomadic

nomadic — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:47:32 +0000

um, madhaus? Isn’t this proximity? The fact that a commute from the Peninsula is easier to San Francisco than from the East Bay doesn’t stop him.

And rumor has it, that Cal school in the East Bay is pretty good.

By: RealEstater

RealEstater — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:08:30 +0000

Bob,

Pay attention! The article referrs to Nashville police specifically. It’s not talking about rural TN.

By: madhaus

madhaus — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:02:19 +0000

It’s hard to figure out whom to back in an argument between Chuckie and Fristy. On the one hand, Chuckie keeps changing his arguments. On the other hand, Fristy makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. For example, above Fristy makes this absolute wowzer:

The ONLY reason the Peninsula is more expensive than other areas is its proximity to tech jobs.

Fristy has absolutely no information to back up this incredibly wrong claim, but that would never stop him. The fact that there’s more room to build housing in the East Bay doesn’t stop him. The fact that a commute from the Peninsula is easier to San Francisco than from the East Bay doesn’t stop him. The fact that the weather is nicer in the Peninsula doesn’t stop him. The fact that Stanford is one of the top universities in the world doesn’t stop him.

Nope, in Fristy World, because he says so is enough.

Hmm, kind of like in Chuckie World too.