Palo alto is the City With the Most Computer-Related Jobs

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It used to be that Americans went to college and then got a job either near where we graduated or back near where we grew up — places we were familiar with. Maybe later in our careers, we’d get moved to another location, or choose to relocate on our own. The Internet has, in its relatively short existence compared to other technologies, opened up career opportunities, making it easier to find jobs anywhere in the USA, thanks to hundreds of job sites and listings on thousands of corporate sites. Of course, that’s maybe more choice than some of us want or need, though the option is there.
One area of growth is in computer-related jobs, which goes beyond just programming.

It has compiled a list of 50 American cities With The MOST tech jobs, but this time we'll speak  of the city number one according to this ranking: Palo Alto. Because job counts are so variable from month to month, even week to week, we observed computer-related job postings over a five-month period in over 80 regions. This info was combined with top cities for existing computer-related jobs to form this general outlook. It’s a loose ranking, and jobs are subject to change. Since computer-related jobs can by nearly any company these days, we’ve listed the top industries in each city and some of the top employers.

Palo Alto California

Palo Alto, California, in Santa Clara County was incorporated in Apr 1894 and named after a Redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. Explorer Gaspar de Portola, founder of San Diego, CA, found a Native American settlement in the area in 1769. There are burial mounds in the area. Palo Alto is part of Silicon Valley (which in turn is part of the San Francisco Bay Area). While the population is small (65.5K for 2010 Census; est. 66.6K for 2013), the city has been instrumental to many tech startups — some of whom have moved to nearby locations, others still there, and more that are being incubated. Palo Alto is adjacent to the census-designated area known as Stanford, California, which is where Stanford University is located, and where many tech companies got their start, as spinoffs of college projects (e.g., Google, where founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were PhD students, but later dropped out). Other info about Palo Alto:

• Livability index:
  • Palo Alto=(overall=85; employment=A+, education=A+, housing=A+, cost of living=F)
  • Stanford=(overall=82; employment=C+, education=A+, housing=A+, cost of living=F)
  • Mountain View=(overall=82; employment=A, education=A, housing=A+, cost of living=F)
  • Los Altos=(overall=86; employment=A+, education=A+, housing=A+, cost of living=F)
  • Menlo Park=(overall=84; employment=A, education=A, housing=A+, cost of living=F)
• Cycling: Palo Alto: Gold, Mountain View: Silver, Los Altos: Bronze, Menlo Park: Silver
• Sports: There are no professional sports teams in Palo Alto, although a number of well-known athletes, including Olympics champions, were born here or live/lived here.
• Higher education: Stanford University and Palo Alto University.
• Top industries/employers: There are over 7,000 businesses in Palo Alto. Some of the more well-known companies (tech or otherwise) who are either headquartered here or have operations include Amazon.com’s A9.com, Hwelett-Packard, IDEO, Mashable, Ning, Palantir, Palo Alto Research Center, Tesla Motors, Tibco Software, VMWare, Xerox, AOL, Dell, Groupon, Nokia Research Center, Skype and several others.

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