'It's that spirit that keeps changing the world, bending the arc.'
Kevin Kelleher/Special to SFGATE
It’s no wonder tech millionaires flock there: The morning fog rolls down off Twin Peaks and quickly burns off, leaving Noe Valley one of the warmest and sunniest microclimates in the city. It’s bordered on all sides by parks — Dolores Park to the north, Glen Canyon and Twin Peaks to the West — with a Whole Foods smack in the middle.
The Noe Valley Town Square bustles with activity daily and especially on weekends, where there is a farmers market on Saturdays and community events on Sundays.The activist meetings, too, are a return to the ‘hood’s old ways.
“It just felt like a neighborhood,” said Anders, sitting outside Valley Tavern, where the Noe Valley Voice was born. “It had a certain spirit that left around the first dot-com boom,” Smith said. “But it’s starting to come back.”