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Places to live in the Bay Area?
What are some cool places to live in the Bay Area other than SF and East Bay.
Looking for a place where I won’t have to own a car and is walkable with good public transport, with coffee shops and stuff like that and somewhat safe. Not too long of a trip into SF for the weekends as well. I have to consider other places because of the high prices of SF.
I live in Oakland and love it! I do not have a car and rely on pubic transit.
Here are my pics for neighborhoods in the East Bay:
Piedmont Avenue (my ‘hood)
Great public transit (MacArthur BART- only about 6 blocks if you live closer to the Temescal board) transbay buses- the C, CB and P, lots of local buses- the 51, 59, 12 and 57- and the 11 further up). Great neighborhood feel with coffee shops (love the new Caffe Trieste and La Farine. Gaylord’s is a standard) bars (Kerry House, Cato’s, Casear’s, the Kona Club), restaurants (like Xyclo, Bay Wolf, Barney’s), boutiques (the Bee’s Knee’s, Nathan’s, A Step Forward) and grocery stores & pharmacies (2 CVS,’s a Safeway, Piedmont Grocery and Monta Vista produce stand- and it’s not too far from Rockridge, see below, and is only a bus ride away from Whole Foods Oakland and is super close to the Temescal Farmers’ Market) and the area is VERY safe.
Rockridge
Also great public transit (Rockridge BART, lots of local buses and a transbay). Great grocery stores (a Trader Joe’s and a Safeway). LOTS of food options. Fun bars. A good mix of folk (Bay Area parents, grad students, late 20′s/early 30′s folks, random single people). It’s a bit pricey though and good apartments are hard to come by.
Temescal
Up and coming area. Close to BART. Some restaurants and a Walgreen’s.
Lake Merritt is great too, but is a little far from BART and the public transit is kinda nil outside of commuter hours.
Fruitvale has a BART but is just not that safe.
Uptown has a BART too. And Whole Foods. But is overpriced and it’s VERY sketchy west of Telegraph.
Jack London Square. Nice apartments, not near public transit (unless you count Amtrak), noisy (the trains run right through that neighborhood, all day long), no grocery stores (unless you walk to Chinatown- which is quite bustling) and not that safe (READ: scary at night, the crowd that frequents the restaurants and bars there get really scary after midnight).
Berkeley. FAIL. The areas near BART are sketchy and dirty (unless you live near North Berkeley BART but there is not too much around there living wise, you still have to take a bus to Berkeley Bowl, a grocery store or I guess you could walk to Andronico’s- but that grocer is crazy overpriced and smelly). And more importantly, rents in Berkeley are WAY TOO HIGH for what you are getting. . . If you do end up looking at apts there, make sure to walk the neighborhood AT NIGHT. (Elmwood is ok because it is basically Rockridge)
Just my opinion.
Berkeley(East Bay) Safe Space
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