Niles is okay in a rough way. There’s a fishing pond there, too, and more bushes.

Fremont is a gay-friendly town, with a gay support center downtown.

The area around the Mission and Ohlone is rather nice, and you can get a good meal there, too.

The town also has a large central park with a lake, and a very nice sports complex for soccer, baseball and other sports.

Fremont is not San Francisco, and if you like San Francisco then you should plan to live there, but that doesn’t mean you should run down Fremont. It has plenty to recommend it. It’s peaceful, relatively. It’s clean, more or less. It’s got decent schools. It’s got outdoor recreation. It’s got all the services.

It even has theater, live music, poetry, art, and more. It has the secret sidewalk.

You haven’t been in town long enough to make a judgement. You don’t seem to be particularly curious about looking beyond the five fast food joints around you. Are you in the “four corners” area? That area has a long history, and was one of the first places in the east bay with a store. That area is also important in the history of African-Americans in the Bay Area.

You seem to be judgemental. That probably comes with the territory when one blogs, since being non-committal is often less interesting.

Fremont is not the greatest place on earth. I certainly don’t live there. But I am familiar with it from long residence and employment in Alameda County, and Fremont has its goodnesses and relatively few badnesses.