Central Dublin / San Ramon Village

Central Dublin is basically just a large residential neighborhood at the heart of Dublin.

Homes here go for somewhere around $500 K—maybe a little bit less. You get a lot of Ranch homes on the western end of the neighborhood and as you go farther east the homes get newer, mostly having been built in the last 20 years. There is also a lot of room for more development. Home prices, as you would expect, get higher the farther east you go as well—here you get those newer mass produced homes which all sort of look like each other. The newer homes are right by the undeveloped hillocks of green farmland that used to cover all of Dublin. You cans still spot (and occasionally smell) some actual cows and such up here.

This is the kind of throwback neighborhood where you get people working on their homes on the weekend, teaching their kids to ride their bikes, or washing their cars. Inside their garages you see everything is orderly and well-kept.

Front lawns are well maintained and usually completely green, the sign of a neighborhood where people really care about what they have.

This is a really nice community, close to BART with good schools and low crime. Not much more you could ask if you are a Silicon Valley worker looking for a place to lay down roots.