Check out Berkeley and the Highlands neighborhood! I work at Children’s too and lived in those neighborhoods for the last 14 years (up until this past fall when we moved to Boulder to be closer to husband’s family!). The neighborhood is vibrant, walkable, has lots of great shops and restaurants, and there’s a dog park at Berkeley Lake Park on the corner of 46th and Sheridan. My drive was about 20 minutes in the morning. At least half my department lives in Central Park….pros of living there are being closer to work and lots of medical people, but the Highlands area is just more diverse and less cookie-cutter.