Post #491097 by FrankieGillette on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 10:42 PM

Business brings me to the Bay Area a lot. To the person who suggested the town of Livermore as "charming", I wonder if you have all your oars in the water.? It's a dreadful mostly treeless concrete canyon laden with franchised fast food, gas stations, & generic power centers. Castro Valley is Bakersfield by the Bay, with County Sheriffs cruising in Dodge Chargers to nail meth heads.

Alameda is all-right-but a commuting nightmare and get used to driving 25 MPH through the whole town. Oakland has it's moments, but the adjacent neighbor"hoods" are frightening. Check the crime rates with the local PD before you make a move. I like Menlo Park, Atherton, Palo Alto & Albany. Menlo Park has the best weather in the Bay Area. Danville & Walnut Creek are okay.

Remember that once you get much north of Tiburon &, Larkspur expect the usual dog-eared hippie havens chalk full of 70's burnouts,bad food, wackos, misfits, & the usual back-water players.