Reply #5: I'm from Concord

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Not exactly the stix :p
I remember (old man voice) when BART was only from SF-market street to Concord.
*cough hack wheeze-die*

Concord is nice, lots of whatever, and very handi-capable access everywhere.
some neighborhoods are ...um... yeah. but every area has those.

thing is we're at least 30 minutes outside of the delta.
Martinez is a beautiful city, but a bit more run down, and prone to flooding every year.
My sister lived in Martinez for a few years, and if you didn't live on the hill, you were going to be flooded. - it's about an hour away from the Delta, but the Main Amtrak station is there (took the line to Reno years ago, it was beautiful).

just my two cents ^^

OP welcome to the bay area