Is Sausalito a paradise, or not?

[MrScorpio]

Does anyone here know about the place?

[Left Is Write]

1. I wouldn't call it paradise, but it's nice.

I know nothing but what I experienced while visiting there 13 years ago.

[CreekDog]

2. It's pretty darned nice

near the Golden Gate Bridge, in Marin (Marin is so nice), on the bay, on a hillside.

it's got too many tourists, is expensive, but it's pretty darned nice.

[lunatica]

3. It's a wonderful way to spend some time

It's charming and quaint and lovely. If you get a chance spend some time there. It's also a major tourist attraction, even for the Bay Area residents, so it's busy and expensive

[XemaSab]

4. Nice place to live as an adult

One of my good friends grew up there and I went to school with a lot of the STP (Saus-Town Posse). There were some odd ducks in that bunch.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. Sure...

if you're idea of "paradise" is living among the white and priveledged. Areas like that make me very tense, so it is no paradise for me. True, it is astoundingly beautiful, but that is not enough to make up for the company. Actually, there are a few holdouts from when it was an artist/hippy haven back in the 60s, but they are either dying out or being oushed out. :(

I have one image stuck in my head -- I was in Sausalito for a job and was at an intersection across from a handwash carwash. The cars being services were all high end cars and the uber elite people who ownd those cars where all white. They all sat off to one side of the lot, drinking their coffee while the brown people handwashed their cars over on the other side of the lot.

And that is Sausalito in a single, graphic image.

[MrScorpio]

6. Most of the pics I see of the place are without people in them

Now I see why

[Gormy Cuss]

7. It's a pretty little Northern Californian town.

Paradise? No, kind of boring if you ask me but it is the easy ferry ride to San Francisco.

[old mark]

8. I didn't care for it. Too rich and status oriented for my taste.

Too many Beemers and tennis sweater/coke heads.

But that's just me.
It is very pretty, though.
mark

[cbayer]

9. I love it. It's beautiful, but very pricey.

There is a section on the water that has houseboats, which is probably the most affordable way to live there. And you can take the ferry into San Francisco or ride a bike across the Golden Gate Bridge, so little need for a car. The community is very progressive as well.

I lived there for about 4 months before moving my boat to Southern California and enjoyed everything about it.

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