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My sister lives on Southgate. I spend a lot more time here than I do at my folks place because it is so close to the ocean. Call my crazy but I love surfing in all types of weather conditions. Southgate is extremely residential and that is one thing that my sister complains about. There isn't really a community feel and nothing but houses. In order to get to a shopping center or any form of community services you need to actually drive about ten miles out of the whole sprawling residential communities that surround Southgate. The houses are all pretty much on the newer side and the street is in prime condition.

Don't laugh at the name. Hickey for a street name is pretty corny. However Hickey Blvd has one thing going for itself and that is young street dancers that imitate 80's krumping and Vanilla Ice moves. You can catch them near the Hickey and Bacon area almost every weekend in the day time. Other than that the street is pretty ordinary. The landscape is not really kept up that well and some areas of the street are treacherous for car tires. There are a couple of good hole in the wall bars and an easy escape on to 280.

Geneva Avenue is shady. If you are driving down the street you can see people walking around in the daytime dressed in winter clothing when it is 80 degrees out and all sorts of weird people. This is certainly an area that one would not want to be in when it gets dark. The stores and houses are all pretty scary and low class looking by the Bayshore end. Things pick up a little towards Alemany Blvd and the Crocker Amazon Park area. I guess the best thing about this street is Cow Palace.

Alemany Boulevard is a mess! It is a traffic nightmare. If you don't know this area and need to hit the highways I would suggest map questing some backways. This area is clustered with cars and the exits to this highway and this blvd get really confusing. They come up so fast and in some areas the lanes are only one instead of two so if you miss the exit you have to go through the whole turn around ordeal and it can become very tedious. If you suffer from road rage don't even consider taking Alemany Blvd. If you are not near the cluster of highways than Alemany Blvd becomes like any other normal main street in a city. There are plenty of corporate food chains, malls, banks and so on.

Hillside Blvd is an interesting street. There is plenty of history between the Japanese Cemetery and Olivet Memorial Park. The street is a mixture of old, new and nature. I used the street a lot when I was in highschool for the Bart Station which gave me direct access to high school. I frequent a couple of bars where Hillside Blvd meets Mission Street. Hillside Blvd get's pretty busy in the day and at some parts has two lanes going in each direction. Once you head south passing Cypress Hills Gold Course you literally enter cemetery land.

My dad has his own contracting company. He is currently building some condos on the corner of Annie and Washington. I have been helping him for the summer doing manual labor so I am coming to know Washington Street pretty well. The street itself is fairly quiet but you can definitely tell that it is a typical California style house. The bungalows all the look the same with mismatched tiles. This street actually has yards unlike so many streets in Daly City. When I say yards I don't mean a pocket of grass I mean yards that are both in the front and back. There is plenty of construction going on at the moment. Lot's of houses are springing up and my dad was talking about some of the people that live on the street making complaints. During the day traffic is pretty probably with commuters on their way to 280.

Clarinada Avenue is in a decent location. It is lined between Cabrillo Hwy and Skyline Blvd. My girlfriend lives with some other girls at Clarinada Ave. There are quite a few houses that are dedicated to students attending college. It is like a family street meets party student street. It can get a little noisy at night sometimes and it is a common sight to see cops at houses because of complaints from loud music and stuff. The street itself is fairly nice and well kept. There are a lot of parks and things to visit on the weekends where the street meets Callan Blvd.

Dalewood Way stretches through a part of forested nature by Mt Davidson Park which gives the street some credibility as far as a scenic drive goes however once you hit the residential part it becomes a different street. First of all the street seems continually makes it way uphill. The houses are all perched on the West side coming from Bella Vista Way until you pass Mt Davidson Park then they are on both sides. The houses pretty much all look the same. Slabs of boxes on stilts with no yards. This is exactly why you should not try to build houses in areas that are meant to be designed for nature. The whole thing is off. The street is always crowded with people walking their dogs and jogging too. There aren't even any sidewalks on half of the street.

Too bad that the weather is usually gloomy over in this area. Skyline BLVD curves through the city then it gets right on the edge of the Pacific. The road becomes a nature drive once you get up by the Mussel Rock Park area. There are two smaller side roads for cyclists and joggers that run right beside the main road of Skyline BLVD. When I am driving down the road with my windows down I can almost smell the ocean but you really won't be able to see the best views until you hit the Upper Great Highway. If your in the mood to drive you will find many small restaurants usually specializing in sea food and other various activities. If your in the Daly City area you should definitely cruise this area.

St Francis Boulevard is a really nice street. The houses are out of this world. Some have really funky designs with long driveways and others are traditional with a splash of New England elegance. St Francis is a road away from my folks place and actually jog through part of St Francis. The street is linked by a couple of important intersections and is primarily residential for the upscale crowds but there are also some community places like a sports rec and and the St Francis hospital. There is one part of St Francis that creeps me out and that is old Oakview Cemetery. I jog right around that area and a couple of times I was tempted and jogged right in between the old graves. It is freaky even in the daylight, nothing but dead silence.

San Fernando Way is a typical middle class neighborhood in California. The street is lined with residential houses which sprung up in the late 80's. My parents actually purchased their house when it was still on the lot undergoing construction. The road is nice and wide and was recently repaved a couple of years ago. I'm still living at home to save money for college and the 280 (Junipero Serra FWY) is just a quick drive from my house which leads my to most of the places that I need to go. Overall the street is pretty safe and is pretty much a family oriented community.