In front of everybody on this site: are you being serious when you say that?

Real question.

Of course. We've seen this at the high school level near Stanford. Palo Alto's high schools have a significant suicide rate, about 4-5x the national average. The causes of that have been much discussed.[1] The school district takes surveys and has a lot of counseling resources. "Twelve percent of Palo Alto high-school students surveyed in the 2013–14 school year reported having seriously contemplated suicide in the past 12 months." The city fenced the railroad tracks, and has guards and cameras at the crossings. Students of those high schools are now asking for more information about suicides.[2] They're the ones at risk, after all.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil...

[2] https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/04/29/students-urge...

wait, you just switched from stanford-the-college to palo-alto-high-schools. which is it- stanford makes you go crazy, or living in palo alto?

I don't think whatever argument you are trying to make is very well thought out. From what I can tell, you have some sort of model where you think that living in the Palo Alto area makes people go crazy/kill themselves, possibly in a way that is associated with the institutional policies of the schools in the area.

If you don't see why that sort of speculation is both stupid and dangerous, I don't think it's worth me continuing to engage. There are any number of explanations for what you observe that don't involve blaming institutions for causing suicides.

I live in the area and am quite aware of what happened around Caltrain- many people die on the caltrain tracks every year. Having a grade-crossing railroad in the middle of a dense suburban area is crazy.