best place to live in U.S.
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Foster City, CA
If you ever have flown into SFO, you would most likely spot it. There's a big sign on the ground.The guy who founded it was a real estate magnate (family still is), and he did this because he found retirement too boring and set out to build a master planned community. The whole city was salt flats, marshlands, cow pasture before it was filled with landfill norrrrrrrth of the airport in the 60's-70's. There was supposed to be a Le Courbisier structure built, but that never came to be. Anyways, with a nice lagoon (also designed to save the city from the 100-year flood), average 1 murder/decade, hella parks near you, a bike trail that is next to the bay, diverse population, and a general peaceful feeling, it's a nice city to live in. If you can afford it. Average price for a home is about ~1 million. VISA, Sony Entertainment of America, CafePress, SolarCity, Gilead, Applied Biosystems, the people who make ...For Dummies, and the people who make the Sling Box are some of the companies who call Foster City home. 20 miles from both San Francisco and San Jose.
I get a bit bored here sometimes (I like European cities better), but it's a nice city to live in.