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Suprised you even heard about Santana Row, but it's upscale and popular with the chic kinda girls. It's almost like a self-contained village with great resturants, a few hot clubs, and good shopping.
Palo Alto itself is a very nice community, although more subdued. More likely to find rich daughters and Stanford chicks there.
Downtown San Jose now has many nice affordable condos for $350k and up that put you into the thick of San Jose nightlife. With that said, San Jose nightlife can be somewhat gritty and the cops are everywhere, especially at closing time when they literally riot squad people out of downtown. The upside is that violence and crime are quite low for a city of over a million people.
The best nightlife is in San Francisco, but you have to know how to navigate around.
Other than that, mid-peninsula is not bad. Burlingame and Millbrae put you in between San Francisco and the South Bay - so if you want good weather, go South, and if you want nice sites and hard partying go North.
All in all, the Bay Area is a pretty nice place to live except for the occasional earthquake (the last real big one was in '89).
Welcome to the neighborhood...
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