Weather - 9/11/2007

Terrific weather all year round.

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Way too expensive - 5/24/2007

The schools and neighborhoods are not worth the extraordinarily high cost to live here. Young couples often cannot afford to but their first home without significant help from parents. With no real "downtown:, an overrated public school system and unfriendly neighbors, living in Fremont is not worth the cost.

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Decent place to live in the bay area - 5/12/2007

Been a long term Fremont resident. Its the geographic center of the bay area that attracted me to this place - kind of equidistant to San Francisco as it is to San Jose. Quiet town, and great place to send your kids to school - probably some of the best public schools in California are located here. Other than that, the city depends on its neighboring cities for shopping, entertainment and restaurants. Although some shopping areas have been added recently, most are pretty generic stuff.

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Living in Fremont, CA - 4/15/2007

I find Fremont a good choice for living considering all of the following: cost of housing: as reasonable as it gets in the bay area location: close to the freeway, BART subway access, midway between San Francisco, San Jose, & Dublin/Pleasanton schools: a respectable collection of elementary & high schools crime: reasonably low

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just another non-descript bay-area city - 8/3/2006

the pluses of fremont include: -bart station if you need to travel to sfo for work etc. -better choice of restaurants than san jose for instance. -the ardenwood portion is lucky to have a good schools. -malls & shopping closeby -cosmopolitan community representative of the rest of the bay area. -quite a few software/hardware firms closeby for those of you that work in those areas. negatives include: -high cost of housing even if you live in a not-so-hot school district. -driving *anywhere* is a nightmare -apartment communities even in the "good" parts of town are like slums.

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Close to it All - 5/12/2006

I've lived in the Bay Area all of my life, the past nine years of it here in Fremont. Fremont had always been considered the "Bedroom City" because all people did was sleep here, while they worked and played elsewhere around the bay, but things are slowly changing. We have a few nice restaurants, some galleries and unique stores, a historical California Mission, a small theater group that produces three to five plays a year, symphony and we even have a place that plays live music. There are several hiking and walking areas, and we have a great walking/biking trail that goes from the hills to the bay. Just about anything you might want to do can be done here, although maybe on a smaller scale. City & School government are led by community members who are involved and dedicated, although they are inclined to play to the politics and sometimes make decisions that seem to serve their future positions over a current issue. Typical politicians, but they do care. While it is not my favorite area of the region, it is a well located city, with major freeways and bridges nearby that will get you just about anywhere in the bay area in about 20-30 minutes. The cultures and people are hugely diverse, and most seem to get along. The division among cultures and race is not as great as I've seen in other cities. Playgrounds and restaurants are filled with groups of people from various backgrounds. It's a great place to get to know your neighbor, who is likely to have a differnt ethnicity than you.

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