It was decades ago, but now it's where Googlers live, and the apartment prices have gone up to match. I lived in an garden apartment complex built in the 1960s but recently renovated, with rents therefore somewhat elevated. The apartments nearby were of the same vintage but not remodeled, so were a little cheaper but much more run down and overcrowded by people trying not to be forced to move far away. This was the period where Mountain View implemented rent stabilization.