Clayton Rd, Farm Bureau

This is not all that different than your grandparents' retirement complex. The homes all look identical in this complex, and are clean and well-kept. Parking is virtually a nonissue, although I had a tough time reading the house numbers when I came here at night and actually ended up ringing the wrong doorbell.

Safety is most definitely NOT a concern in this sleepy neighborhood, and I would make some jabs about dying of boredom, except that it does offer access to some nearby cool areas, however...

Concord is so far removed from San Francisco that I would venture to call it a suburb of the Bay Area rather than a suburb of San Francisco itself. There is a BART station, which grants easy access to San Francisco, but it is not the first town that you would associate with its bustling neighbor further west. The town itself has the standard array of shopping plazas that you would expect of any suburb.

For what it's worth, the complex is almost entirely Chinese.