Where to live in California
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Saratoga
Ranked 1st best city in California
"Forbes ranked it one of Americas most educated towns"
- bayareabound
Saratoga is a wealthy, safe and family-friendly community located in the greater Santa Clara County. It has a bit of a suburban, small town feel with a population that just recently reached 30,000....
San Francisco
Ranked 2nd best city in California
"A Different Kind of Urban Paradise"
- sfsully
No single remark characterizes better what San Francisco means for many people than a quip by Herb Caen, the city’s late chronicler par excellence: “One day if I do go to heaven ... I'll look around a...
Irvine
Ranked 3rd best city in California
"Planned Perfection"
- CatieW
Irvine is a master-planned city in the middle of Orange County. It was established by the Irvine Company in the 1960s and rates high on lists of the best cities in America. This is due to a low crim...
Santa Clarita
Ranked 4th best city in California
"Canyon Country is a great suburb in Los Angeles with a big c..."
- teamla
Canyon Country essentially 5 main roads. The population consists mostly of middle-age families with children going to local schools. The school system is excellent. There are about 2 junior high schoo...
Laguna Beach
Ranked 5th best city in California
"Where Real Life is Better Than Reality TV"
- CatieW
The town of Laguna Beach has become famous due to the eponymous MTV reality show, but the show did not do this enchanting little beach town justice. Laguna Beach is built along the coast, with reside...
Burbank
Ranked 6th best city in California
"The Best of the Valley"
- ValleyGirlTori
Burbank is the most populous and vibrant city in the entire San Fernando Valley. It is home to over 100,000 people and to NBC Studios where the Tonight Show has been filmed since the days of Johnny C...
Lafayette
Ranked 7th best city in California
"One of the Best Kept Secrets of the East Bay"
- NightOwlnOrinda
Lafayette is the most affordable of the three cities that make up what is called Lamorinda (Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda). Lafayette is just east of Orinda and west of Walnut Creek, and centrally loc...
Piedmont
Ranked 8th best city in California
"Best Family City in the East Bay"
- NightOwlnOrinda
Piedmont is maybe the best of the hillside neighborhoods in the East Bay. It is a historic neighborhood that was once known for its millionaires and that still is home to many wealthy residents. Cur...
West Hollywood
Ranked 9th best city in California
"Happenin' place!"
- JenMac
West Hollywood is the one of the most bustling parts of the city. This neighborhood has everything. And, it's great for the young, single demographic. There is a pretty even mixture of apartment bu...
Newport Beach
Ranked 10th best city in California
"The City For Fun, Sports and Arts"
- livelifeenjoy
If you enjoy the beach, sports, arts and cultural activities, then Newport Beach is the place for you. Found along the coasts of the Orange County, this city is known for their great housing and shopp...
Huntington Beach
Ranked 11th best city in California
"Life’s a Beach in Surf City, USA"
- CatieW
With a population of almost 200,000, Huntington Beach is the largest beach city in Orange County. Residents of the city are lucky enough to enjoy a mild climate with plenty of ocean breezes and an ab...
Beverly Hills
Ranked 12th best city in California
"The Beverly Hills of LA"
- ValleyGirlTori
Few neighborhoods denote the kind of wealth and elegance that Beverly Hills does. Even now that other neighborhoods have staked their claims to being even more affluent than Beverly Hills, it is stil...
Emeryville
Ranked 13th best city in California
"Great Place to Go For International Food on the Cheap"
- NightOwlnOrinda
I have heard it said that Emeryville has the highest per capita commercial space of any city in California. I don’t know if it is true but you can certainly see the why someone might think so. It is...
Santa Monica
Ranked 14th best city in California
"So beautiful but so expensive"
- JenMac
Santa Monica is a great part of Los Angeles because it has a pretty beach but it's still in the city and has a lot of city life going on within it. The only problem is that the accessibility combined...
Orinda
Ranked 15th best city in California
"A Great Little Bedroom Community about 20 minutes from SF"
- NightOwlnOrinda
Orinda is a tiny community (population approximately 17,000) just on the other side of the Berkeley hills in Contra Costa County. It is an affluent community, made up mostly of upper middle class f...
Unranked Cities
"A Little Grove of Tech Millionaires"
- DirtyHarry
Atherton, just to northwest of Menlo Park, is yet another refuge for the fabulously wealthy. The median home price here is about $4.5 million. Finding a home beneath the $1 million mark is fairly dif...
"Well-kept secret"
- StephSF
Bodega Bay really is one of the North Bay’s best-kept secrets. While most North Bay residents travel to nearby Stinson Beach on a sunny day and sit in traffic for hours, an extra half hour up the 101...
"High-tech industries residential quarters"
- bayareabound
Located within the vast Santa Clara County, Campbell is a suburb of the busy San Jose and is very much a part of the San Jose area. In fact, it attracts many of the high-tech industry elites of Silic...
"A South Modesto Main Street"
- abacadabbra
This and Crows Landing Rd. are the main drags for this area, this is where you go when you dont have anything better to do and want to get out of the house. Theres a bunch of stip malls and shopping c...
"Noisy but Affordable"
- NikkiDKatt
San Bruno is the middle class city just to the west of SFO. Given the high cost of neighborhoods to the south this might be the first truly middle class neighborhood before you start hitting the whol...