When you and your neighbor both win Nobel. I mean I'd love to have such a neighbor instead of the single mother that lost control of her 5 yo boy who screams atop of his lungs.
If you earn a lot of money, you can move into a gentrified city like Stanford. The city approves a small fraction of the new housing that is needed to keep up with demand, so prices are inflated 500%. Single mothers and young people cannot afford to live nearby and must commute 3 hours a day to their jobs. Enjoy your old rich neighbors and traffic.
The zoning restrictions are mainly due to Palo Alto (the neighboring city) and Santa Clara (the county) AFAIK. Stanford is an unincorporated area. But otherwise you point stands :-) It’s too damn expensive.
Yeah they both live in housing on the Stanford campus that is only available for faculty.