What is a great neighborhood in San Francisco Bay area for kids to live, go to school, and play?

Question

Our family is relocating to SF Bay area and we will be working in South SF and Mission Bay areas. We want to find a nice quiet kid-friendly neighborhood within commuting distance. We can pay <$3500 month rent or mortgage, and would appreciate some advice where to start looking.

Answer 1

I love San Francisco my first cousin and her family live accross the bay bridge. If you locate a web site for a local real estate agency that is a member of the REALTORS and a member of the local MLS system most of them now will provide you the ability to search all the listings that are available through the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) However more than finding a property and due to the facts that you have children you should also research other aspects of areas when you do find a property that you might want to pursue. To that end you might want to look at these links.
Information on any city in the USA: http://www.bestplaces.net/
Information on any school: http://www.greatschools.net/
Locating Sex offenders and other felons living in your area http://www.familywatchdog.us/Default.asp
EPA: Finding out about your local drinking water quality: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo/index.html
EPA: Drinking water in Schools and Child Care Facilities: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/schools/index.html
Law enforcement agencies throughout the US: http://www.usacops.com/
State by State tax information and analysis http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/TaxFacts/tfdb/TFTemplate.cfm?topic2id=90
DEA Website on methamphetamine homes all states http://searchjustice.usdoj.gov/search?q=National+Clandestine+Laboratory+Register&q=site%3Awww.usdoj.gov%2Fdea&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=iso-8859-1&oe=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&site=default_collection
FBI: Crime reports for each State: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_08.html
I hope this information helps you get more information that is usually provided by us licensees because we forget.
Buena Suerte

Answer 2

Pacfic Heights, or the Presidio