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> All of them?

Hmm, don't agree here. East Bay cities I don't find particularly family-friendly: Berkeley (except for the hills $$$), Oakland (except for the hills $$$), Emeryville, Richmond, Concord, Antioch, Pittsburg, Brentwood, basically the whole north 4 corridor.

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I guess I don't really know what family friendly means. This whole area is muti bedroom houses with yards. There are parks scattered around. The one question, which I acknowledge knowing nothing about, is schools.

What does "family friendly" mean?

I shudder to think that it has to be your typical suburbia. There's so much more to offer than a sheltered back yard where your shuttled from strip mall to strip mall to practice field in a car.

family friendly can be parsed many ways, but in general, it's some weighted combination of outdoor/parks/community programs, crime rate, public school quality, the ratio of kids to adults and seniors in the area, median house size, etc.

I'm just thinking environment -- would I be comfortable with my wife and child walking the street in that city? Would she be comfortable?

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