No way, man. You have to pay like $1.5 mil for a home in Palo Alto and Mountain View. You do all that and you get a glorified suburb. No way. The city is like 400x as city life for like 1.1x the price.
I would be shocked if one could find a liveable single family home in Palo Alto or Mountain View for $1.5M.
Last I looked empty lots went for that much.
By home, do you mean house? Sub-million dollar homes show up all the time in Mountain View, even before Covid. Thinking anything less than a house is unlivable for a family is not the norm in most other parts of the world.
By home-not-a-house, do you mean an apartment? Duplex? Tent?
I assumed you meant "single family home", but yes, you can find sub-$1M apartments.