Beautiful Northern California
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5/1/2006
Born and raised in the San Francisco bay area, I currently live in Walnut Creek about 35 miles north of San Francisco. It is truly the "Best Place" on earth to live....if you can afford it. It's simply beautiful, we have the best restaurants, great weather and you can , mountain climb, play golf, ski and swim in the ocean all in the same day (if you don't mind the drive time). However, it is really expensive. The median price home is about $560,000 and it'nothing to write home to Mom about. Utilities, Food, entertainment all are pretty expensive. You can live pretty comfortably with moderate recreation etc. on about $175K per year. That's a lot of moola. The people are fairly nice and it is clean and pretty. However, the schools are not that great and it is getting a bit congested, even in the suburbs. Most people are health conscience and there is a great deal of cultural diversity. Over all a really nice place to live.... if you have the moola!
carla | Bee Cave, TX