By Wendy Steiner
Photo by mrjoro
California realtors are predicting Livermore will be one of California’s top 10 hottest neighborhoods this year. Other Bay Area cities on the list include a mix of less shocking places like the Mission and Willow Glen in Silicon Valley. Neighborhood hotness is based on how much realtors expect the prices in those ‘hoods to rise in 2013 and are mostly places I’ve never heard of.
Some explain the decrease in available listings and the increase in pricing in areas like Livermore to be based on up-and-coming schools, better commutes, and “hip local vibes.” It’s getting pretty damn hard to afford to live in cities as expensive as SF, but I think there must be more reasons why people are moving to Livermore and not somewhere else when fleeing crushing finances. Here are five uneducated guesses why you would move to Livermore:
1. You really like liver
And you want it more. With some fava beans and a nice chianti.
2. You like living on the edge
… of what’s considered the Bay Area. By map makers, but not all San Franciscans.
3. You don’t want your friends to visit you ever again
You could probably never clean your house again. That’s worth considering.
4. You won a free house
Those free houses you see in weird local magazines gotta be somewhere, right? Maybe those houses happen to be in the same place where they discovered the chemical element livermorium.
5. You killed someone and you need to lay low for a while
I’m not entirely sure what writing this thought says about me.
