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Some of our most-read stories of the year delved into the big issues of day-to-day life in the Bay Area: affording a home, negotiating traffic, finding a community. Here are five such reports. : The unicorn hunt was the sixth episode in housing reporter Kate Talerico’s series on Bay Area home hunts, following hopeful buyers as they narrowed down their options.

Part 6: They wanted good schools, nature and ‘a feeling of privacy.’ with $3.5 million? | .



For the Diaz family, Texas seemed — at first — to align with their more conservative politics and be a better place to raise children. That same summer, Rob Surrency made a major leap of faith with a move to Alaska: “If I’m going to do something drastic, then let’s do it.” Neither of them anticipated .

. Four former Bay Area residents after making the big move. : .

Hundreds of thousands of residents. Thousands of well-paid jobs. Offices.

Factories. Roads. Schools.

Transit. Parks. These were the , the controversial company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires planning to build a new city from the ground up in Solano County.

Business reporter Ethan Baron followed the saga – . . At the end of a quiet residential street in Half Moon Bay, a kind of coastal upheaval is gaining momentum — one that could and affect hundreds of public beaches as rising seas pose a growing threat to California’s beloved 1,100-mile coastline.

| : The court’s ruling : Billionaire to halt state lawsuit seeking more public beach acce.

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