As you head north on 101 towards San Francisco, you pass Foster City on your right, a little before San Mateo. Foster City was built relatively recently, in the 1960s, on landfill; as such the houses are more modern than a lot of housing in nearby cities. Since the city was a planned development more thought went into its layout and it’s easier to navigate.
The city is the headquarters for Visa, one of the better-known major employers in the area. It’s also in the flight-path for San Francisco International Airport. While double-paned windows can solve this for many, keep it in mind if you’re sound sensitive.
Since so much of Foster City is water—back yards lead down to canals—and the city boasts some nineteen parks, the overall effect is one of beauty and serenity. According to a survey done by NeighborhoodScout, a web based platform, Foster City is safer than 62 per cent of cities in America to live in; for more information go to:
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/blog/top100safest-faq
Weatherwise, the city’s very pleasant, it rarely gets super hot since there’s a cooling influence from the Bay, and it’s below the summer fog line, which rarely reaches past San Mateo. (See the discussion on weather at the end of the book.)
