Where do you live in San Francisco #1

Each year during The 10 Year Plan, we are often asked:  "Where do you live?"

When selecting a place to live, our goal is to live in the center of the city or close to it.  That way, we can be within walking distance of the heart of the city's life, culture, history and all the wonderful things that make the city a world city.  

Before settling in San Francisco for Year 5, we visited the city and looked for a neighborhood and apartment that suited us.  We explored different neighborhoods, including Russian Hill and SOMA, which is short for South of Market Street.  We even explored a trendy neighborhood called Cow Hollow, where cows once grazed.        

We settled on an apartment in SOMA, in an area variously called Rincon Hill and the East Cut.  The area is one of the oldest neighborhoods in San Francisco.  It has undergone many changes over 170+ years.  Today, the area is home to the Tech Hub in San Francisco and includes many new office towers and gleaming residential buildings.  We live in one of those gleaming buildings on the 20th floor. 

Our apartment, like our apartments in prior years, has a nice view.  From our apartment, we can see both the Bay Bridge (which connects San Francisco and Oakland) and San Francisco Bay.  

Here are a couple of photos taken shortly after our arrival in March.  

An early morning view of the fog shrouded bay and Bay Bridge

The Bay Bridge at dusk.