A low-profile Silicon Valley neighborhood is suddenly stealing the spotlight nationwide. Evergreen Park in Palo Alto has been crowned the best place to live in California and ranked No. 3 in the entire country on Niche’s 2026 Best Places to Live list, which evaluated more than 18,000 communities. The rankings blend hard data with real-world feedback. Niche analyzed information from the US Census , FBI, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and CDC, along with its own research and millions of resident