Is the Pleasanton / Livermore area still cheaper than the South Bay?

[Ceece]

Dublin is cheaper than Pleasanton, so is Livermore, but it doesn't change the commute.

[ebrooks]

Originally Posted by ccm123

Yeah, but traffic on 580 in the morning and afternoon rush hour is heavy. Commuters from Tracy and the surrounding area come in on 580 WB in the morning and depart on 580 EB in the afternoon.

There are cool detours that unlike many detours actually work. I'm not sure I want to publish them--they are a little like fishing spots. And you keep moving, through pleasant countryside, much less stress.

[sonarrat]

School districts are the main driver of real estate values in the suburbs, and Pleasanton and Livermore both are pretty strong in that department. So you have to look apples to apples. If you compare those relatively distant, but still close enough, outlying areas to parts of the Silicon Valley that have equally good school districts... the real estate valuations down here are far higher. A townhouse that goes for $500-600K in Pleasanton could fetch $900-1M in Saratoga or Cupertino.. and they never really went down during the real estate crash here, it just slowed down the trend line a little bit.