i.e. Lafayette/Moraga/Orinda.
Walnut Creek also works (esp. since my folks own two homes there, and is where I went to High School 
) but if I had my druthers ... I'm all about Orinda, man.
Lived there as a kid (76-79) and I still just love it. I drive around my old haunts almost every time I go home to visit my folks and just still always go ... this town is freaking amazing!
Prices are ridiculous but it is so gorgeous, with a cool history. Basically it was where wealthy people from SF and Oakland built their vacation homes/ranches in the 1920's-1940's. It was 'far flung' back then. So there's a lot of large, custom, beautifully maintained homes from that era (many are Spanish hacienda/ranchero styled), and even the newer ones tend to be really tastefully done, nestled among the prodigious oak trees that basically cover the hilly environs of the town.
It's like FairyLand I swear
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