Six places,
three regions.
We do not pretend to know every neighborhood in the country. We know these well — well enough to recommend the bakery, the bus route, and the contractor who will not disappear after the deposit.
The West End
Tree-lined · Pre-war
The Hill District
Modernist · View
North County
Farmland · Quiet
Old Town
Cobblestone · Historic
The Mill District
Industrial · Loft
Easterly
Coastal · Cottage
On staying for forty years.
The West End is full of people who arrived for a job and stayed for a school district. The houses are mostly pre-war four-squares and craftsman bungalows. There is a coffee shop on Linden Street that has been there since 1972.
Read the letter →Houses that want a view.
The Hill District is where the city’s modernists built in the 1960s and 70s. Long, low rooflines. Indoor-outdoor everything. The houses age strangely well, when they are looked after.
Read the letter →The weekend, considered.
North County is forty-five minutes north, and a different kind of life. Old farmland, slow roads, a single general store. A weekend house here is a decision, not a purchase.
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