San Francisco Voice

San Francisco is a city which is very neighborhood-oriented.  People identify with the neighborhoods in which they live and work, selecting from a range of quite different choices to find a locale which suits their personal styles.  From the Mission to the Marina, from North Beach to the Tenderloin, from the Castro to the Haight, from the Financial District to the SoMa …  people in San Francisco hear the names of certain neighborhoods and either smile or cringe with recognition.

San Fran Voice is working to bring you inside information on the different neighborhoods of San Francisco and what you will find there.  The archives of what information is currently available can be found here.  However, since we haven’t quite gotten all of your neighborhood information needs met yet, today’s post points you in the direction of where you might get info on the San Francisco neighborhoods that you want to know about.

• Craigslist is the place to start if you want to get an idea of the housing prices, community events and local opinions on San Francisco.  You can search each subsection of the Bay Area’s classifed ads by neighborhood to learn more about each of them.
• Dreamworld.org put together a guide to SF which includes neighborhood info; it has some insider information and also gives a bit more description as to the different sections of each neighborhood (such as the “Inner Sunset” vs. the “Outer Sunset” for the Sunset neighborhood).
• KQED has a television series about San Francisco neighborhoods with links on their site to sites for the different shows.
• Menuwire provides information about San Francisco’s dining options; you can select by neighborhood to see which restaurants are located in the part of the city where you want to dine.
• Only in SF has a short list of major neighborhoods with links to “what to do”, “where to eat” and “where to shop” in each of them.
• RentalGuide.com has an online map which shows the basic geographical locations of different San Francisco neighborhoods, although it should be noted that these boundaries are not quite correct as far as local opinion goes.
• San Francisco Merchants divides its resources up by neighborhood so you can find a number of different business located in each section of San Francisco.
• SanFrancisco.com has a really brief outline of the different neighborhoods including their reputation, main location and “hotspots”.
• Schecky’s is a review-based guide to the shopping, nightlife and beauty spots of San Francisco; it’s listed here because it lets you select neighborhoods to see what spots that are reviewed are located there.
• SF Gate has a traveler guide to the neighborhoods which is useful for finding some of the landmarks, highlights, history and venues in each neighborhood.
• Wikipedia says that there are 90 neighborhoods in San Francisco and describes some of them in depth.

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