Palo Alto

Palo Alto is the true heart of Silicon Valley, since this is where a number of young startups — like Facebook, Pinterest and Paypal — grew their legs and companies like Tesla Motors and Hewlett-Packard still reside, welcoming in tech workers from around Silicon Valley and beyond.The city that’s home to world-renowned Stanford University is also a hotbed for tech, and you can feel both intellectualism and innovation in the air here, where commuters take in the strollable downtown after work before ducking into quaint, quiet neighborhood streets. Palo Alto is chock-full of oaks and other towering trees along its lanes and open spaces — which make up roughly a third of this city’s acreage.