That was seven years ago. In the time since, the home has, fortunately, appreciated as we hoped it would. After a difficult year, things began to level out. The man across the canyon who complained about our pool filter turned out to be the real noise offender, spends summer days sanding his deck with an […]
Backstory
The Decision
After viewing the house, we drove the five minutes to the public elementary school. It was a beautiful campus, nestled into a hill, surrounded by trees. Our son played on the playground for a while, and then we wandered around campus, peering into the spacious classrooms. Then we stopped by our in-laws’ house just ten […]
Finding the Canyon House
One day, my husband talked me into looking at a house in a small town about halfway between San Francisco and Palo Alto. I wasn’t interested at all in the town, which had a reputation for, well, snootiness. But there happened to be a home there in our price range (well, almost in our price […]
Why we left San Francisco for the Peninsula
We purchased our canyon house in 2009. We’d been living for five years in San Francisco, in a wonderful little neighborhood in the outer avenues, just eight blocks from Ocean Beach. We had purchased our city house in 2004, when I was pregnant with our son. We loved the neighborhood, and it had served us […]