A great spectrum of opportunities
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9/4/2008
Livermore has about 80,000 people. It's located at the end of a valley. There are no adjacent towns to the north, south, or east. The hills can be seen from all directions. There are 30 wineries in Livermore and almost all of them have free wine tastings every day. There are vineyards everywhere - sometimes within housing developments.
Most of the local festivals have related to wine - "Art in the vineyard", "Wine and Honey Festival". The park system is constantly growing in size. There are lots of bike trails through the parks and bike lanes on the main streets. The
downtown has been completely redone with large water fountains and a new large free parking garage downtown next to the 800 seat theater that opened in 2007. City leadership is progressive and responsive to the citizens.
The largest winery here is Wente. They run a very deluxe restaurant with an outdoor summer concert series with artists like Boz Scaggs, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, and Foreigner performing for 1500 people enjoying their wine.
The golf course next to the restaurant is on the PGA tour.
There are urban growth limits which preserve the view of the hills to the north of town.
Livermore is the only city in the country with 2 nuclear weapons labs. But don't worry much. They don't build bombs here but they do have Plutonium. A positive effect of the labs is the very large number of PhDs living here.
The Altamont Hills are to the east of the city and it is home to one of the largest windmill farms in the country.
The BART train stop is a 15 minute drive. BART is the main bay area transit system connecting San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland.
Livermore is part of the greater San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland area.
Don | Livermore, CA