San Mateo and Santa Clara numbers, read together and explained the way Lisa would across a kitchen table.

Design, architecture, schools, and the life around the homes — the long read on what it is to live here.

Forty-plus communities from Palo Alto to Hillsborough, each profiled with the detail of someone who works them daily.

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