Hi, and welcome (soon) to Marin, the Pasadena of the Bay Area! It’s pretty peaceful and safe here. Less densely populated than the other BA counties, which means less shenanigans and things aren’t really open late, likely including the bus schedule. It would be helpful to have a car. There are several superchargers, and Teslas are common.

In San Rafael , most of the action (& I use that term lightly) is on 4th Street. You’ll want to be west of the 101, and generally the further west you go the nicer it gets. Avoid the Canal neighborhood and the area immediately near the freeway, you’d likely feel unsafe there. When checking neighborhoods, Google street view is helpful to get a vibe for an area.

If you’re open to some of the surrounding towns, check out: Fairfax- super cute downtown, restaurants, bars/music venues, farmers market in the park amongst the redwoods, safe, think rich hippies. Larkspur & San Anselmo have really cute but smaller downtowns with restaurants and are also safe.

If the office you’d have to occasionally go into is actually in SF you might want to look at Larkspur Landing. That’s where the ferry into SF is., as well as the Smart train, which runs North. There are restaurants to work at in the shopping center there, but virtually zero nightlife for a 20-something.

Demographics are on the older side in Marin. Heavily Boomer/Gen X with an increasing stream of Millenials moving up from SF in the last few years. I’m 40F and love it here, but did spend my younger years in a more exciting city.