Neighborhood (San Francisco, Montclair, Burlingame: apartment, hotels, neighborhoods)

[Danoliafoya]

Soliciting the opinions and knowledge of au fait San Franciscans (18Montclair and gizmo980 come to mind)...

I am relocating to San Francisco within the month. I have lived there before, from 2004-06. I enjoyed my time there and regret having left. I resided in Burlingame for most of the two years and out of downtown hotels for the remainder; work, and pleasure jaunts, took me all over the city and much of the Bay Area. I have cursory experiences in nearly all the neighborhoods of the city of San Francisco. So, while I am knowledgeable of the urban landscape to a certain degree, I would appreciate some input from those much more familiar than I.

MY QUESTION: Which neighborhoods, if any, besides Pac Heights, Sea Cliff, and the Presidio, within the city proper of San Francisco best satisfy the following criteria. Please cite specific blocks & streets within those neighborhoods.

> A highly educated demographic (read: college-educated)

> 100% of the residents are bona fide American citizens -- not fresh off the boat and speaking all kinds of languages (Guadalamacala macala, macala. Macala.). I refuse to live in a Tower of Babel situation. And I don't care to reside alongside iconoclastic crusaders with subversive designs to bring down "The Man" and eradicate Western culture and mores.

> The residents speak the King's English -- not some sort of pidgin, lingua franca, or bastardized, broken variant such as Spanglish.

> A goodly portion of white residents

> Reasonably safe; minimal panhandling; minimal riff-raff loitering in the streets (passers-through are okay)

> Minimal street noise (as city noise goes)

> Dignified neighbors: Minimal partying and the associated commotion -- a WOOHOO!-free zone. No Third World living arrangements such as 3 adults, 4 children, and a Pit Bull per 2 bedroom apartment.


I await with bated breath your sincere responses. Please answer the question as it has been carefully crafted. Don't make this too complicated: don't second guess this poster's motives or hurl ad hominems because you find me stilted and aloof. Yes, I'm for real. Yes, I really talk like I write. Yes, this is an earnest query. Yes, I'm a first-time poster, and no, this is not a parody or a needle. No, I'm not a bigot (and if I were, what's it to ya?), and yes, I realize we're talking about San Francisco, not St. Stephens, Alabama.


Good day,

Danoliafoya

[humboldtrat]

Wow, what a literate posting! There are way too many on this site who have problems stringing enough words together to form a complete sentence. And also to the point. Not one of these "Should I move to California and where should I live" questions.

Look into the Marina Green neighborhood in SF San Francisco's Marina Green and the Presidio Park. It can get expensive in this area. I also like the West Portal neighborhood http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes...co,_California

[sonarrat]

Without considering the rest of your post too much, yes, you are a bigot. And people pay lots of money so that they can be bigoted quietly. If you have the money to live in such an area, then you should be able to figure out where they are. Quietly.

[clongirl]

Sorry, but giving you recommendations on where your type of mindset/irrational thinking would most thrive or be most comfortable would be like me giving playground directions to a pedophile/child molester.

You do not deserve San Francisco..even with all its warts. You should not live in the Bay Area at all. Literate, intelligent, or educated, you are not. You've been duped. Now, go away...from an "au fait" San Franciscan" Lol

[18Montclair]

Bayview, The Mission, maybe Chinatown.

[Joe_Ryder]

Due to the malformed structure, there can be no answer.