Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, a U.S. state. It is part of the Silicon Valley and home to Stanford University and several successful computer industries.
Palo Alto's sister city in Sweden is Linköping.
A good description of high-tech life in Palo Alto around 1995 is found in the novel by Douglas Coupland, Microserfs. One visible trend at the time was people moving to live in San Francisco, but driving down Route 280 to work in the valley.