San Fran Commuter Neighborhoods (San Francisco, Oakland: organic, living in, professionals)

[rushco22]

I'm contemplating a move out to SF and am wondering if there are commuter neighborhoods. In NYC, for example, you have towns like Rye, Harrison, Purchase, New Rochelle, etc where many finance professionals live and commute to the city each day. They are about an hours drive/45 minute train ride outside of the city, have nice country clubs, etc. Are there similar towns in the Bay Area or do most people who work in the city actually live in the city? Thanks!

[cornblitz]

Of course there are... in Marin, the East Bay, and on the Peninsula. Where to begin?

[wooliemonster]

No. No one works in finance, no one commutes, and all the country clubs have been converted to organic farm cooperatives.

[rushco22]

Very helpful, thanks. I thought it was strange that a Californian would make such a response because they are generally so nice, but then I noticed that you're actually living in Texas and must have nothing better to do on a Saturday evening than go onto an online forum for a different city and state than your own and be a jerk to someone simply looking for help.

Cheers, won't be back to this site.

[wooliemonster]

Why so serious?

[felinius]

Originally Posted by rushco22

Very helpful, thanks. I thought it was strange that a Californian would make such a response because they are generally so nice,
Cheers, won't be back to this site.

Not sure if said op would be a good fit for the Bay if they can't take a joke.

[mayorhaggar]

Pretty much everything outside of SF is the suburbs of SF. Some areas are more urban, like parts of Berkeley and Oakland, but they're still not as urban as SF generally is. I think a lot of people don't realize where SF begins and ends, because they don't expect it to be so small. Or they're bad at reading maps.

[04kL4nD]

I disagree. Oakland is REALLY urban in places like Adams Point or East Lake. Downtown Berkeley is pretty compact too. Not all of SF is like Manhattan either- see Sea Cliff, St Francis Wood, and a lot of the Sunset/Richmond districts- not exactly densely populated.

[mayorhaggar]

Yeah, downtown Oakland is way more urban than the Outer Sunset. I was just painting a basic picture for an out of towner who seems to have no grasp of geography and doesn't seem willing to do a little online research.

OP could start here:

San Francisco Bay Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[sonarrat]

Originally Posted by rushco22

I'm contemplating a move out to SF and am wondering if there are commuter neighborhoods. In NYC, for example, you have towns like Rye, Harrison, Purchase, New Rochelle, etc where many finance professionals live and commute to the city each day. They are about an hours drive/45 minute train ride outside of the city, have nice country clubs, etc. Are there similar towns in the Bay Area or do most people who work in the city actually live in the city? Thanks!

Hundreds of thousands of people commute into San Francisco every weekday, from all directions. If you're looking for parallels to those places you listed, which are essentially a step down from the snooty Greenwich/Stamford thing, that would be places like Burlingame, Sausalito, Orinda, or Kensington. Those are all in different directions from SF and there isn't a big difference in commuting difficulty between them.