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City in California, United States

Foster City

$1.8MMedian Home
338Sunny Days/yr
View on Map· Pop. 33k· Elev. 7 ftWikipedia

Foster City is a master-planned city located in San Mateo County, California, United States. Foster City is sometimes considered to be part of Silicon Valley for its local industry and its proximity to Silicon Valley cities. There are many notable companies headquartered in Foster City, such as Gilead Sciences, Zoox, and Replit. Visa and Sledgehammer Games were formerly headquartered in Foster City.Wikipedia

About the RegionCalifornia

California contains multitudes in a way that makes any single characterization misleading. The Bay Area and Los Angeles operate as global city-states, with housing markets, income levels, and cultural gravity that put them in direct competition with London and Tokyo rather than with other American metros. Both have lost net domestic migrants to lower-cost states for most of the last decade — primarily to Texas, Arizona, and Nevada — though both also continue to be net draws for international migration and maintain labor markets of extraordinary depth and diversity.

But California's geography is vast. The Central Valley offers costs of living that rival the Midwest with driving distance to the Sierra Nevada; the North Coast is one of the most beautiful and least-crowded stretches of American coastline; and the smaller cities of the inland valleys represent genuinely different lifestyle profiles. For remote workers who can absorb the state income tax and housing cost, the combination of climate diversity, outdoor access, and cultural institution density remains difficult to replicate anywhere in the world.

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Current Conditions

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Cost of Living

Housing
$4k/mo
Median Rent
$1.8M
Median Home Price
Rent burden24% of income
Household Income
$191k
Median annual
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Livability

Internet
Fiber
0%
Cable
0%
address availability
05

Climate

Sunshine
338
sunny days per year
93% of the year
Comfort Score
70/100
Good
Rainfall
20"
inches per year
Air Quality
41
Good AQI
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Demographics

Population33k
Altitude7 ftabove sea level
Median Age40 yrs
College Educated73%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home26%of workforce

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