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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the campus is objectively beautiful but somewhat soulless. Just feels very corporate and overly manicured. I don’t get the Taco Bell complaints though. [/quote]
I went to grad school there 20+ years ago (so zero knowledge about the current undergrad experience) but I'd say that's an accurate descriptor of the space. Honestly I was totally wowed by it when I first arrive - lemon trees out my window!  blue sky every day!! mission-ish style architecture!  But I rather despised Palo Alto and looking back on the campus I remember it as feeling rather sterile even then.[/quote]

Pretty representative of the Bay Area as a whole…. Gorgeous but sterile [/quote]

The Bay Area isn't sterile and to say that during Pride month is especially laughable. 
SF, Oakland, Berkeley, the peninsula, and San Jose all have distinct feels and very different populations. 
I loved living in Palo Alto, especially once I was in my upper 20s. The wealth was a little hard to get used to though.  [/quote]

Berkeley is not sterile. The area around Stanford is for the most part, and Pride Month is hardly a huge event here. Stanford has a nice campus but it’s really a bubble - not very integrated into the very expensive outside community. [/quote]

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