Oakland, founded in 1852, is today considered a major Northern California city on the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay.  Oakland is a city of neighborhoods and in the beautiful northeast section of Oakland you will find magnificent natural landscaping, homes with architecture as diverse as anywhere else in the country, cafes and small villages with mom-and-pop shops; and most of all, a place where residents really choose to live and they would not live anywhere else in the entire Bay Area. 
Oakland has experienced an increase of population in the past decade, attributable to economic recovery, along with Oakland's weather, location, and hillside neighborhoods with views of San Francisco and the Bay.  If you are ever looking at open houses in the Sunday papers, you will see how many neighborhoods we have in the Oakland Hills.  If you click on Neighborhoods & Listings on my website, you will see how close and intertwined the neighborhoods are and that we all visit each area on a daily basis for shopping and visiting friends.  My neighborhood happens to be Crocker Highlands.