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If you live in Piedmont but live only 3 or 4 blocks away from a grimey area, Piedmont becomes a bad area in my mind. Piedmont is surrounded by a ghetto. Oakland is bad.
Oh and by the way making $100,00 a year won't get you anything nice in the Bay Area, try $200,000 a year and live in Marin.
Umm, piedmont is surrounded by rich, quiet, upscale neighborhoods. Everything within 5 blocks of piedmont is mansions.
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I know a lot about Oakland since I used to live by there.
Would you consider Piedmont as Oakland? I don't.
This guy knows a lot about Oakland.
Oh and by the way making $100,00 a year won't get you anything nice in the Bay Area, try $200,000 a year and live in Marin.
Can't believe you ever lived in Oakland. Or Piedmont for that matter.
Piedmont was named one of the "25 Top-Earning Towns" in CNN Money Magazine's list of 'The Best Places to Live.'
Piedmont is home to a number of leaders in the political, business and academic communities, in addition to sports figures including ex-Major League Baseball player Dave McCarty,ex-National Football League star Bubba Paris, San Francisco 49ers,National Football League star Bill Romanowski, Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, Green Day member Tre Cool, Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, and Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and co-writer of WALL-E.
They all make well over 200K and the CHOOSE to live in Piedmont, surrounded by Oakland.
and yes, Piedmont Pines is a neighborhood in Oakland, not Piedmont.
Can't believe you ever lived in Oakland. Or Piedmont for that matter.
Piedmont was named one of the "25 Top-Earning Towns" in CNN Money Magazine's list of 'The Best Places to Live.'
Piedmont is home to a number of leaders in the political, business and academic communities, in addition to sports figures including ex-Major League Baseball player Dave McCarty,ex-National Football League star Bubba Paris, San Francisco 49ers,National Football League star Bill Romanowski, Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, Green Day member Tre Cool, Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, and Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and co-writer of WALL-E.
They all make well over 200K and the CHOOSE to live in Piedmont, surrounded by Oakland.
and yes, Piedmont Pines is a neighborhood in Oakland, not Piedmont.
Whoop-de-doo!!!
So does that make Beverly Hills a nice place then?
Just because famous people live there?
Dave McCarty, Bubba Paris, Bill Romanowski -- never heard of these guys, don't care.
Al Davis-- Is insane, and has to be there because his awful football team is from Oakland.
Tre Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong -- Washed up. Never liked them in the first place honestly. Pop punk, is bad music.
Peter Docter -- Is rumored to be moving to Marin/Novato very soon.
Anything else guys?
I don't think of Assault and Residential Burglary as "petty crimes". Only someone who lives in the East Bay would think that, because they are so used to crimes happening all the time.
"I was shocked, saddened and disturbed when I learned of the murders of these four officers. I feel a certain connection to this horrible incident because I am from Piedmont, Calif., the neighboring city to Oakland. Also, on a more personal level, my father is a retired California police officer.
While my hometown is sheltered in its own little safety bubble, I have always been aware of the violent history of the city right next door. With a notorious reputation as one of the top-ten most dangerous cities in the United States and with one of the highest rates of homicide in the nation, many people have heard of Oakland for predominately bad reasons. This tragedy is yet another event that will add to the city's already-tarnished name."
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Ok, I have decided on Oakland/Berkeley (or surrounding nice areas). What areas should I avoid, and what areas should I look into (specifically).
I would like to stay around 800 with a roommate(s). I need to have fairly easy parking, but would like to be close to BART. Do any of these areas have a BART station with free parking, or easy parking nearby?
Basically I am going to start looking on craigslist in these areas. When you say avoid "East Oakland", could you give me some landmarks or say "east of a certain place, and south of another". I will be pulling the house up on Google maps, but I am not extremely familiar with the area so im not exactly sure what qualifies as "east Oakland".
Thank you to everyone who responded in my previous thread. This is a very helpful forum, and has made my life quite a bit stressful as far as looking for an area to live in goes!
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