People of Albany CA
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1/30/2012
Like many places in the Bay Area, there are some mixed-race couples and gay couples in Albany. What is really striking, though, is the number of families where both parents have college degrees. Yet it is not a strikingly affluent community like nearby Piedmont, because in many families one parent works from home or works parttime, or is home raising kids. This leads to unusually high levels of parent volunteers in the schools. About a quarter of Albany households are renters in University Village, which is family housing for UC Berkeley, and many of those families are noncitizens (typically the father is studying for a science PhD). This gives some interesting diversity in the overcrowded schools. There is only one high school and one middle school, so cliques are a problem.
pegeen | Albany, CA