Canal

This is the spot where the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge touches down in Marin County. The southern end of this neighborhood is made up of companies and the detritus of such industrial locations. What companies are located here?

The San Rafael Heliport, the video game maker Telltale Games, a Home Depot, the ceramics designer Daltile, Parnell Pharmaceuticals and video production company, 32 Ten Studios--to just name a few.

The northern end of Canal is much more suburban. Along the water you get one of those planned condo neighborhoods where all of the homes look somewhat alike and the streets are named after New England locations: Nantucket, Newport etc. In this location, most of these run between $600K and $800K .

These give way to some very boxy looking apartments which pretty much make up the rest of Canal. These apartments--listed as condos mostly--sell for about about $150K.

As far as school goes, they are mostly fairly strong here as throughout most of Marin.

Overall this is probably a very good place to work and fairly good place live.