Is Bernal Heights in San Francisco a good place to live for families with kids?

Bernal Heights is known as a place where people go once they get pregnant. If you are have to live in the city, it is a perfectly passable place to raise kids. As I grow older though, I think that the city is not really the ideal place for raising kids: too much crime, too much activity, too expensive and mixed quality in public schools.

The public schools around Bernal are pretty terrible so you would definitely have to find private alternatives--take that into budget considerations when planning to live here.