Going back twenty years or so, I decided to start downsizing my computer collection. Around 2000, my landlord in Mountain View decided to sell his house in Cupertino and gave me notice to move. I had a LOT of stuff, so I went in with a couple of other Silicon Valley computer collectors and we rented an unheated building in San Carlos. Everything at the house and the contents of a couple of storage units went up there.
I had been in that house for about fifteen years at that point and even back around 2000 rents on the peninsula were crazy. The Google-driven pricing insanity around Mountain View hadn't even kicked in yet!
So over to the East Bay I Go