Santana Row is fascinating. It looks to me like it was manufactured to please the "traditional" rich crowd. The people going there are very distinct than the typical engineers of Silicon Valley.
That's why the trick of parking a nice car on a street wouldn't work in SF, Palo Alto or Mountain View.
There isn’t a lot of traditional rich in San Jose, they mostly hang in Atherton through Palo Alto, and then in the city and north bay. Santana row attracts (or did 15 years ago) a lot of Chinese and Indians, but they are mostly new rich.
That's why the trick of parking a nice car on a street wouldn't work in SF, Palo Alto or Mountain View.