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North Beach is great! Lots of restaurants and convenient to get around.
I’ve been in the city for a decade and parts have really changed. I love Marina / Cow Hollow / Pac Heights area - amazing restaurants and bars, east access to the water front and presidio. The Presidio is also beautiful! Russian Hill is pretty cool too; I personally like the neighborhood feel of cow hollow (feels less like I am living in a city and more like a nice residential neighborhood but still a stones through to bars and restos). Nob Hill I tried briefly a few years ago - it was loud and crime has been moving up from thee ternderloin and it’s changing so I wouldn’t recommend. Others love nob hill and the close proximity to downtown but we experienced crime in that neighborhood twice so I’m less partial.
@CPD1 I love the mission but have to say it doesn’t feel safe or clean lately. Especially since Covid, fewer eyes on the street (less commuters out during normal hours) means that many businesses have closed or dramatically reduced their hours. The result is a combo of more property crime, more trash and excrement in the streets, more people being verbally or physically attacked. I live a little closer to 16th St station and encounter people treating the street as a toilet (both #1 & #2) a few times a week, at all times of the day.
For years, the mission was a desirable place for young people to live because it was relatively affordable and a good commuting option, whether you took Bart into the financial district or took a tech shuttle/drove to the South Bay. My perception is that a lot of the people who did that have left the mission after driving up rent prices, and now the community that was there to begin with can’t afford to live there, and don’t have access to many basic services (especially since the trendy restaurants/cafes have long taken the place of neighborhood favorites).
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Tell me what you’re looking for in a neighborhood and I’ll tell you where to live. I’ve been in SF for a decade and lived all over the place.
Live outside the city.
I currently live in Pac Heights and would recommend. Castro and Duboce Triangle are also nice in addition to the areas other people have mentioned
Lived in SF for 9 years. Lived in Russian hill, north beach, marina. Russian hill was my favorite, close enough to Polk, union, chestnut, but a little quieter than being right in there
I'd say the only benefit of Nob Hill is that it's close to downtown, but it's also close to the Tenderloin aka the ghetto. Russian Hill is almost as close to downtown but is also closer to hangout spots like North Beach and Polk. The Marina is nice because there's tons of bars and restaurants and you're near the presidio and Crissy Field. It's definitely more of a millennial/party atmosphere than the others (note that I'm lumping the Marina in with Cow Hollow here, which is essentially the same neighborhood just on the other side of Lombard). Also, it's flat, which makes it easier to walk anywhere from your apartment. Pac Heights is also a really nice neighborhood, similar to the Marina and nearby but quieter. If those are the kinds of neighborhoods you're into you might also look into Hayes Valley for the same reasons. All of those neighborhoods are safe by SF standards.
depends how far up you live in Nob Hill. California/Powell is pretty much as high as you can go and a ways away from the tenderloin. nob hill Is a great call - it’s centrally located, clean, safe and in the middle of everything.
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In city I like North Beach, Pac Heights (of course), Inner Richmond and Sunset, Potrero Hill and Hayes Valley. Mission Bay and Dogpatch are fun, too. But I've moved over to Oakland, as have several of my friends and colleagues, and love it.