Palo Alto

The City of Palo Alto is a located about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of the Cupertino headquarters of Apple Inc. in California. Palo Alto is home to many technology companies, such as Hewlett-Packard and Xerox PARC.

Statistics
Palo Alto is located in the County of Santa Clara and has an estimated population of only 65,364 as of 2019. However, the weighted home price in 2021 was over 2.67 million, making it the least affordable city in the United States. As of 2021 there are 2 Apple retail stores in Palo Alto. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was known to visit the Apple Store in Palo Alto as it was near his home.

History
Palo Alto is the site of the campus of Stanford University, which was founded in 1885 and has the second most number of alumni working at Apple Inc. Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded in 1939 by Stanford graduates Bill Hewlett and in a one-car garage in Palo Alto. The "" is now designated an official California Historical Landmark and is marked with a plaque calling it the "Birthplace of 'Silicon Valley'". The Palo Alto Research Center was established in 1970 by and created many technologies that inspired the Apple Lisa and Macintosh.