There are no car sharing services in Palo Alto, but you should know that Enterprise has (or at least used to have) an hourly rental service on the Stanford campus. It's not quite the same thing, but would do in a pinch.
Palo Alto is also remarkably walkable if you stay near downtown - there is even a train directly to San Francisco.
The problem is that it will be very difficult for us to afford living in Palo Alto itself. Stanford provides a free commuter rail pass for employees, so current hope/plan is to live near enough to a station that I can take the train to work, but probably in the towns between SF and Palo Alto.
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Palo Alto is also remarkably walkable if you stay near downtown - there is even a train directly to San Francisco.
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