Best neighborhoods in San Mateo
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Ranked 1st best neighborhood in San Mateo
"Quaint Old Neighborhood"
- NikkiDKatt
It’s all about the stately old houses in San Mateo Park. It reminds me a bit of Old Palo Alto. San Mateo Park, a small neighborhood on the northwestern edge of San Mateo, is filled with well-maintai...
Ranked 2nd best neighborhood in San Mateo
"Community College, Apartments, Contemporary Homes"
- NikkiDKatt
Running along Highway 92, Western Hills is a pretty good mix of a neighborhood. There was a chance that I would be teaching a summer class up here at the community college so I wanted to check out th...
Ranked 3rd best neighborhood in San Mateo
"Beating heart of San Mateo"
- bayareabound
While along the San Francisco peninsula, Downtown San Mateo is the beating heart of the city. Its mostly known for its heavy business quarters, plethora of shops, restaurants, bars and entertainment...
Ranked 4th best neighborhood in San Mateo
"Glendora, Sugarloaf, and the Hosital"
- NikkiDKatt
I think this neighborhood may have been named after Sugarloaf Mountain in Brazilian city of Rio (near where Christ the Redeemer stares down over the bay), but I don’t know for sure. I spent a year in...
Ranked 5th best neighborhood in San Mateo
"Money Can Make a Great Community"
- tinaberry
Hillsdale is the neighborhood that has it all. Great houses, top retail stores, great restaurants, safe and excellent schools, friendly people and so much more. Hillsdale is probably one of the strong...
Ranked 6th best neighborhood in San Mateo
"A cheap place to live with plenty to do"
- Xbox
Being so close to the San Francisco bay the East San Mateo neighborhood is one the cheapest in the area as far as the housing market is concerned. There are plenty of things to do in East San Mateo. O...
Ranked 7th best neighborhood in San Mateo
"A neighborhood well-connected to its surrounding parts"
- bayareabound
Baywood is a beautiful and thriving residential community within San Mateo and the greater San Francisco peninsula. As a result, it is well-connected to San Francisco, San Jose and its closer surroun...
Ranked 8th best neighborhood in San Mateo
"Unexplored bayside community"
- bayareabound
While situated along the San Francisco peninsula, Marina Lagoon is an rarely explored San Mateo community that has fallen into obscurity. It is a small, skinny neighborhood that follows the twisting...
Ranked 9th best neighborhood in San Mateo
"Cool but old"
- smd4newsboys
I visited North Central a while ago on my trip out there and it was quite nice. I enjoyed the scenery, the houses were beautiful, and the area was quite well built up. There is a nice golf course loca...
Ranked 10th best neighborhood in San Mateo
"Uninteresting neighborhood...at best"
- bayareabound
Hayward Park is a lackluster San Mateo community fitted along the San Francisco peninsula. The area is completely residential and is outfitted with undesirable, lower middle-class amenities. It is r...
Unranked Neighborhoods
"Well-connected country club community"
- bayareabound
Beresford is a large, open-spaced, middle-of-the-road community within the suburbs of San Mateo. In fact, its total population is approaching 1,200, which pits it as one of the largest communities in...