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Berkeley
California, in Alameda
County, is located about 15 miles northeast,
around fifteen minutes by car, of downtown San Francisco.
Berkeley is neighbors with Albany
to the north and Emeryville
and Oakland
to the south. It is home the
University of California at Berkeley along
with many restaurants,
shops, and merchants. Berkeley Real Estate
has been in demand for a long period of time because
of its location, weather, UC Berkeley
and excellent public transportation. The desirability
of Berkeley has had a definite impact
on Bay Area Real Estate Prices continuing
to go up.
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Berkeley consists of over 110,000
residents with much colorful history and liberal thinking.
Berkeley is known for brilliant minds, protesters and
college students lining the streets. Berkeley has always
been a haven for avid readers, scientists and mathematicians
along with those who continuously thirst for knowledge.
Berkeley is famous for many reasons but
was put on the map to the younger generation during
the 60's when the "hippie"
movement and anti-war protesters came out in force.
It was a strange time in history when many individuals
questioned authority and created a new way of thinking
and living. Many of the ideas were derived from the
beat
generation meaning "underground or anti-conformist".
During this time Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace
Prize, Malcolm X was killed, Timothy Leary invented
LSD and the Vietnam war broke out. Berkeley was very
active with anti-war protests, experimentation with
drugs and the push for peace and love. Berkeley is well
known for the famous "peoples
park", built in 1969, and the famous Telegraph
Avenue where many people who indulge in the hippie
lifestyle still congregate today. Click
here for a list of shops on Telegraph Avenue. The
community here is not nearly as extreme today but is
still very relaxed and open.
It is easy to get around in Berkeley using a pretty
reliable public transportation system including AC
Transit service (local bus service), the
Bart train, and ferry service running close by.
The city of Berkeley also offers many different bike
trails, along with museums
including the
Lawrence Hall of Science, art
galleries, and nature areas including Tilden
Park.For those who enjoy plants and flowers don't
forget to check out the Berkeley
Botanical Garden, featuring some of the most exotic
and diverse plant collections in the world, and the
Berkeley
Rose Garden. Berkeley is an international attraction
for many reasons including the very highly sought after
educational hunger here, the amazing cultural diversity,
the amazing weather and the laid back very liberal lifestyle
that many enjoy.
Berkeley has a wide range of activities
such as biking, swimming,
or spending an afternoon in the famous Cody’s
Book store, previously on Telegraph avenue, and
now on the 4th
Street strip. Click
here for a full list of 4th street shops. There
is also the Berkeley
marina where many enjoy walking out on the pier
or bringing a fishing pole. The marina offers awesome
views of San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, and
Treasure Island. There is a wide range of restaurants
in Berkeley from some of the finest white table cloth
dining, including the very famous Chez
Panisse where California cuisine was born, to the
all night restaurants filled with hungry University
students. The weather
here is rated some of the best in the world with nine
months out of the year being very moderate. Berkeley has some very beautiful and large homes tucked away
in the Berkeley
hills with breathtaking
panoramic bay views Making it a leader for Bay Area Real Estate. It is also home to the Claremont
hotel and the original Peet’s
coffee.
Berkeley is a very good location to live in a metropolitan
area with San Francisco only 15 miles away and the rest
of the Bay Area within an hour. It is not hard to understand
why many desire to live here and are very happy doing
so. Please feel free to search the MLS for Berkeley
properties for sale. I welcome you to contact me with
any questions that you may have and would be happy to
help you find property.
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