Comments on: “Hayward is not in the Bay Area”

By: jen

jen — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:12:56 +0000

Hayward is actually OK. Not all of it, but parts of it. There are real people who live in Hayward and it is diverse, which is refreshing when compared to pleasanton. Speaking of home values, they are not as good as they were, but it is in the heart of the bay, you can get to many surrounding areas quickly, it’s right on bart and it still has open spaces. It has great thrift stores that are mainly undiscovered because no one comes out this way. If you want to venture out of the beaten path, there are some interesting things. It has a worse rep than reality is. Like there’s no crime in cool places like the city, Berkeley or Oakland? Crime is a part of every urban area.

By: Norcalboomer

Norcalboomer — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:18:28 +0000

Ex sunnyvale renter says the area will eventually go back to growing prunes. Oh we could only dream, a return to the agricultural past would be an upgrade in my opinion. Have you ever seen any of the old pictures of the Santa Clara Valley ( or Hayward for that matter) during more rural times? Beats the hell out of wornout 60 year old shacks and industrial slums.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:20:17 +0000

I lived in Hayweird for several years in one of those HUGE apt complexes off Mission. The most memorable things of that period were the variety of mullets, Harleys rumbling up & down Mission 24 hours a day, and a dozen of the apartments in the complex were discovered to be functioning meth labs. Oh, almost forgot 3 of our cars were stolen in six years.

But it was cheap.

By: Scot

Scot — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:52:20 +0000

It’s not HAYWARD,

It’s HAYWEIRD.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:03:42 +0000

Yes East san jose bad. Just drive around west of mission blvd. Tennyson, jackson, A Street, etc etc. You’ll see.

By: Jim D

Jim D — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:01:07 +0000

Is Hayward really that bad? I mean, East San Jose bad? Really?

(Which reminds me Burbed – East San Jose is SO not the Bay Area. You can get a 3br there for $450k now! I mean really!)

By: Real Estater

Real Estater — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:23:49 +0000

There is credible evidence that Hayward will be the epi-center of the next major earthquake in the Bay Area.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:07:00 +0000

Um personally I refer to the place as the Haystack. CV, has pockets of decent places, but it also sucks. Tri-valley: Pleasanton, San Ramon, and Dublin are good.

By: sonarrat

sonarrat — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:44:06 +0000

Haywire/Hayweird is no good, but Castro Valley is decent and Pleasanton is really giving the “Real Bay Area” a run for its money lately. You can’t completely write off the East Bay.

By: ex-sunnyvale-renter

ex-sunnyvale-renter — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:31:14 +0000

Eww even that corporate type site talks about “diverse living” that’s a code word for “it’s a shithole, but darn it, it’s OUR shithole” lol