Looking for a safe, mid sized city in Bay Area (Sacramento: home, job market)

[baller31]

My wife and I are looking for a home in the Bay area. we are now in Sacramento. We want a mid size city (50,000-100,000) preberbly in the North Bay. We want a new/newer tract home near the coast/ocean. I'm a huge fisherman and my wife loves shopping/fashion who also loves the outdoors. Is there a city that fits this criteria. We would want a city, then find josb there. We both have college degrees and are recent graduates. Don't want the city to be jammed woth traffic or people. Thanks!

[jade408]

Stay in Sacramento. There isn't new development anywhere near the coast in the Bay Area. Generally, new development isn't in central location unless it is infill.

[mayorhaggar]

Find jobs first, then pick a place to live. The job market here sucks and it will be harder to find a job the further from places like SF you get. At least you're in Sac and can get to interviews here if you wanted.

The Santa Rosa area has some newer housing I guess. Definitely most housing in the Bay Area is pretty old, mainly from the Victorian Era to the 1960's, and newer buildings and housing are scattered around here and there. This is typical of any major urban area in the US that has been occupied for a relatively long time, it ain't Sac where you've had decades of recent growth that wasn't there before. And the coast isn't particularly developed because of how chilly it is and because there's a lot of nature preserves near the coastlines.