Guides
Six guides to the first year
The kind of fact a neighbor mentions, not the kind a listing prints. Each one leads with the decision, not the history.
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Transit
Getting around
Three train platforms, a bus corridor, a shoreline bike route, and why an e-bike turns four miles wide into a fifteen-minute city.
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Safety
Streets and safety
Which roads are hostile, where the freeway can be crossed, and what the city has and hasn't actually committed to.
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Weather
The fog line
Why one street is sunny and the next over isn't, explained by a gap in the hills.
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Parks
Outdoors
A watershed on one side, a bay on the other, a hill in the middle climbable before dinner.
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Food
Eating and drinking
Where to look rather than where to go. Restaurant lists rot; streets don't.
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Errands
Settling in
Utilities, libraries, permits, schools, and the recycling rules nobody explains.
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Civic
Showing up
Who decides things here, when they meet, how long you get to talk, and the groups that already exist.
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Calendar
The year
What the city does, month by month, from the green hills of February to the warm nights of October.