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Originally Posted by SFBruin
San Francisco does many things well, but easy access to nature is not one of them, imo.
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Having grown up in the east--a Washington DC suburb--I find that access to nature is what San Francisco does spectacularly well.
In the DC to Boston megaplex you usually have to drive many miles to get to anything resembling real nature (not just an urban park). I grew up about 5 miles outside the District of Columbia in a small tract of houses carved out of a forest in 1949 but these days you probably have to go another 40, 50 miles to get beyond the suburban sprawl (out to Frederick or beyond).
In SF, you just have to cross a bridge. So much of Marin County has been either turned into park land (federal and state) or the development rights have been sold to environmental organizations that the county is pretty much safe from any form of development. And almost nowhere else in the US do you find what amounts to an inner ring suburban county that's nearly undevelopable.
It's another factor that's terrible for home prices but wonderful for those who can afford to live here.