No. Ever been to Oakland?
I was in Oakland a few months ago. They are crazy if they want to move there.
I stayed in Piedmont Hills for a couple of weeks in 2004, where the back yard was filled with lemon and fruit trees and you could see the lights around Merritt Lake from the windows at night and would have to rest half way up, walking up the hills, after shopping in the shops/bookstore (radical leftist one) at the bottom of the hill. (You wouldn’t walk at night, though.)
Oakland has pockets of really neat Victorian houses (with maid quarters) and is very artsy. I actually was thinking of moving there at that time. I have close relatives in Alameda-—the island right off of Oakland there. Alameda is a really cool area, but more expensive than Oakland.