This is super cool. I'd love to see a version of it for the nyc-metro area, or i guess sf-bay area since this is standford. My personal opinion that I've never done anywhere near this much math and modeling to support is that real estate value is nearly perfectly correlated to energy cost like these routes.
In a careful rereading, that question is actually not as stupid as it sounds at first, the author does in fact not believe that Stanford (unlike New York) is a Roman city so that the creators of the linked site ignored NY due to cultural bias.
