San Francisco Real Estate - Janice Lee

Good news: San Francisco is the fifth most walkable city in America, according to a study by the Washington DC-based think tank Smart Growth America. Bad news: That makes housing more expensive. But more good news: It also makes here a cheaper place to live. So, yes, it’s complicated. SGA’s 2016 report "Foot Traffic Ahead" assesses and ranks the number of walkable neighborhoods in the U.S.’s 30 largest cities. Walkable in this case is defined as having 100 or more intersections per square mile, a walk score of 70.5 or better, and a sufficiently high density of commercial properties.

Some places stay with you long after you are gone. While they may not necessarily have the most pleasant weather or the best food, they've got something else, a certain indefinable quality that makes them hard to forget. They're full of adventure waiting to happen, and secrets waiting to be discovered. They keep you guessing. They're exciting and unpredictable. They are, in short,  The  Most Interesting Cities in America . Factors In honor of Jonathan Goldsmith (who celebrated his 76 th  birthday in September), we sought to determine which U.S. cities are most interesting. To do so, we collected data on the 200 largest cities and rated them according to the following four factors. Bars per 10,000 residents.  Interesting things happen at bars. Strangers become friends. Friends become enemies. Fights break out. Stories are told. Passions are inflamed. A city filled with bars is bound to be a very interesting place indeed. Diversity .  We applied a var...

A decade ago, billionaire entrepreneurs Peter Thiel and Elon Musk decided to take booming start-up PayPal public from a small coffee shop along Palo Alto's University Avenue. The street, the epicenter of Silicon Valley high tech, also helped incubate such now-established giants as Facebook and Google. But today, Thiel has seemingly left the Valley behind. The venture capital funds he runs are based 30 miles north, in a San Francisco building with views of the Golden Gate Bridge. A number of highly publicized start-ups like Twitter, Square, and Pinterest are also located in the heart of urban San Francisco. As Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted last February from his new headquarters in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood, "I love the idea of an urban corporate campus with all the energy and variety that provides." To what extent have clusters of venture capital and start-ups shifted from their traditional locations in suburban nerdistans to urban tech in bigger ci...