SOMA - SF safe area?

elfaba
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:46:24 +0000

My husband and I are empty-nesters, just moved to SOMA from the SF suburbs. We love it here. But we live in the Yerba Buena Gardens part of SOMA, near the museums, shopping, and park. Most young folks cannot afford to live in this part of SOMA. In fact my post-college daughter and her roommates live in Noe Valley. They prefer to hang out in the hipper neighborhoods like the Mission and Fillmore.

As the other posters have said, the neighborhoods in SOMA can change within a few minutes walk. You can be in Union Square on Fifth, and a few minutes later be on Sixth where it’s a drug war landscape. You just really have to get to know the neighborhoods. A place in an alley off of Seventh is sketch. If rent seems too good to be true, it is. For good reason.