Inner Sunset
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Homes in the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco are for the most part owned by the persons living in them. This neighborhood is made up of families with children. Gentrification is spreading over this community but unlike other areas so close to downtown San Francisco this neighbor maintains that sense of small town America. Fortunately the fog is prevalent enough here to slow the gentrifying |
effects that have placed a Starbucks on every corner in most other growing areas of San Francisco. Here you will find family run cafes, pharmacies, cobblers and grocery stores.
Thanks to its proximity to the Pacific, homes in the Inner Sunset neighborhood face the invasion of fog most mornings and evenings through out the year. In fact some days you will not see the sun here. Even though the Inner Sunset district has some of the worst weather in the San Francisco area yet it is still a highly rated neighborhood by locals because of its small town atmosphere. Here you will observe that inhabitants know each other. They go out for coffee together and acknowledge each other when they meet each other on the street of see each other in a local restaurant.
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Three waves of settlement created the ethnic mix we see in the Inner Sunset today. The first wave were for the most part Irish immigrants who understood the foggy cool weather patters and were attracted by the low land prices. The second wave were students attracted by the building of the University of California at San Francisco. During this time people from a number of places in Asia including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Pacific Islanders and Vietnamese also settled here and raised families and developed businesses.
The final significant wave showed up during the real estate boom that made inflated home prices and started the Starbucks, Mega Store gentrification of most of San Francisco. To escape the high prices and the homogenization of culture that this brought a diverse ethnic group sought the lower prices and small town atmosphere of Inner Sunset.
Inner Sunset is bounded by Lincoln on the north, Stanyan Street to the east, the southern boundary runs from 19th Avenue along Judah Street to 7th Avenue down 7th to where it wraps around Laguna Honda Reservoir on Clarendon Avenue and bordered by 19th Avenue on the west.
Average price for homes in the Inner Sunset is $430,000. |
