America’s Favorite City

Anyone who’s ever walked or rode a cable car on the up-and-down streets of San Francisco CA Realty and sampled the piquancy of life in the Golden Gate City won’t be surprised that so many people have left their hearts here over the years. A look at the gorgeous homes available in San Francisco, CA listings will convince anyone into staying in the city.

A top travel destination, San Francisco has been voted the best US city in Condé Nast Traveler Magazine’s Annual Readers’ Choice Awards for 18 years in a row. Folks keep coming back to the City by the Bay, drawn by the beauty and idiosyncrasies that make it stand out among all the other cities in California and the rest of the country. It has also proven inspirational to countless artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers, many of whom have called this vibrant, hilly city home. Those who’d like to be part of all this vitality would do well to consult the San Francisco, CA listings.

Squeezed into the city’s roughly seven-by-seven-mile area is a smorgasbord of neighborhoods, commercial districts, parks, cultural venues, sports stadiums and more. The city’s actual geographic boundaries extend further than that, however, and include a number of islands off the coast such as Alcatraz, Treasure Island, Yerba Buena Island and the far-flung uninhabited Farallon Islands.

The heart of the San Francisco Bay area, locally referred to simply as the Bay Area or the Bay, San Francisco’s most recent population estimate was 744,041, making it one of the most densely populated cities in the country. The Bay Area region itself is home to around 7.2 million people.

San Francisco is literally bursting at the seams with joie de vivre, but there’s still peace and quiet to be found in the city. All you have to do is climb up a hill, head over to Golden Gate Park or take a walk on the trail by the northern shore.

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