This is the best Italian food you can find in the #SFBA 🍝✨

Here's the full list: https://bit.ly/3HYnQY8

The entire #SFBA has been losing people since the pandemic began.

But lately, one county has been shrinking particularly quickly.

Marin County conjures a vision of NorCal living that’s hard to beat. And yet from July 2021 to 2022, Marin lost more of its population than any other county in the Bay Area over the same time period.

Here's a few reasons why: https://bit.ly/3I9xF6H

Home prices have increased in only four ZIP codes in the entire #SFBA over the past six months, new data shows.

The region at the forefront of the nationwide #housing market cooldown since peaking in June.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3kXXKN1

More than 100,000 seniors in high schools across #California apply each year for admission into the University of California.

These charts show #UC admissions rates for every public high school in the state: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/uc-school-admissions/?utm_source=mastadon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sfba

Thieves are breaking into #SFBA garages using a new technique to swipe high-end #bicycles — a crime pattern that’s also surging in #SanFrancisco.

The break-ins have similar elements: After casing a neighborhood, a perpetrator walked up to a garage door with a clear glass panel, punctured a hole in the glass and then deployed a rod and hook to grab the emergency cord and pull the door open.

Read more about the break-ins: https://bit.ly/3WteUPz

ICYMI:

#SanFrancisco police arrested Collier Gwin, the gallery owner who was captured on video spraying a homeless woman with a garden hose after he said she refused to move from a sidewalk he was cleaning.

Gwin will be charged with misdemeanor battery “for the alleged intentional and unlawful spraying of water on and around a woman experiencing homelessness” on Jan. 9, District Attorney Jenkins said in a statement: https://bit.ly/3QVphdY

More than a dozen cars parked on one street in #SanFrancisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood were broken into early Monday morning.

The break-ins were discovered by residents of two residential blocks of Filbert Street between Pierce and Fillmore. In all cases, the passenger-side window was broken to gain entry. Either the glove box or center console was left open.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3QMMUFe

What’s the best city to live in the #SFBA?

We ranked the 25 largest #BayArea cities by five quality-of-life categories:
• Entertainment
• Arts and culture
• Walking and transit
• Diversity
• Environment

If all categories are weighed equally, #SanFrancisco tops the list for its unusually high marks on three categories.

What's the best city for you? This tool can give you a custom ranking based on your priorities: https://bit.ly/3HcyTxz

A concert in a converted mortuary. A tour of a Painted Lady. A ride on the longest escalator west of the Mississippi.

Here are 23 things to do in #SanFrancisco in 2023 🌉: https://bit.ly/3ISZL71

Is this the most underrated park in #SanFrancisco? It survived a century of stupidity to get here

Bayview Park is a speakeasy of a park, with just one concealed entrance providing a steep, quiet hike filled with many surprises. Acre for acre, it offers the best views in the city.

It’s also a miracle, surviving countless incursions and near-death experiences by a combination of luck, timing and self-interested people accidentally doing good things.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3CRUmcx