Pros and Cons of Fairfield Ca
Are you thinking of buying a home and moving to Fairfield, Ca and want to know if Fairfield Ca is a good place to live? Read this blog or watch our video below to know if moving to Fairfield Ca is right for you!
About Fairfield Ca
Fairfield Ca is actually the second most populous city here in Solano County with the population around 120,000 people. So one pro that we love and that a lot of clients say make Fairfield one of the best places to live, is how century located Fairfield Ca is to everything as well as San Francisco Bay Area. Fairfield is a beautiful city and the median age in Fairfield is 35. The largest industries that offer the majority of jobs in Fairfield are health care, retail, and manufacturing.
You are at that midway point, you're about 40 minutes to San Francisco and 40 minutes to Sacramento which help with long commutes. You are even 25 minutes away from Napa Ca and about 25 minutes away from Walnut Creek. So we do see a lot of people, especially in the Cordelia and Green Valley neighborhoods in Fairfield Ca come and move here just because it is so centrally located and its close proximity to the Bay Area and job opportunities. Yet you have affordable housing, much cheaper than San Francisco or Oakland or even Vallejo.
Pro #2: Schools
If you have children or plan on having in the future, checking out the nearby schools and their ratings is a good idea. There are many highly rated schools in Fairfield Ca, home to Travis Air Force Base, such as Vanden, which is rated an A on niche.com.
You also have Angelo Rodriguez at the Cordelia junction, which is in the Fairfield Suisun Valley Unified School District with an A- on niche.com. A lot of our clients ask to live in Fairfield Ca specifically to be nearby schools, just so that their kids can be in these private schools and public schools.
Pro #3: Outdoor Lifestyle
There are so many amazing things that you can do outdoors with your children. Fairfield Ca has the best places outdoors that are at your footsteps like three golf courses, that are inside separate communities- Rancho Solano, the Green Valley Country Club and Paradise Valley.
If your family enjoys mini golf, check out Scandia in Fairfield Ca that also has laser tag- so many fun things to do! If you want the best places for hiking in this beautiful city, you must checkout Rockville Park, which is actually our children's favorite parks because they love hiking.
So if you're an avid mountain biker, you will love Rockville Park. So after hiking Rockville, go ahead and mosey on down to Suisun City, and go to the wine tasting areas. Also, Empress Theatre in Vallejo and Downtown Theatre in Fairfield feature live music, comedy, plays and other events.
Pro #4: Suisun Valley
The Suisun Valley area that is in Fairfield Ca, is actually a hidden gem that is becoming, well, not so hidden anymore. There's been a lot of articles about the quality of wine that the Suisun Valley region has.
Our favorite places are Village 360 where you can taste delicious wine and have a bite to eat. Right next door is Caymus-Suisun Winery, Suisun Valley Wine Co-Op, and the newest addition Bally Keal Estate. While close to the rest of town, this area is very rural with lots of land and gorgeous trees around each home.
The Suisun Valley is drawing in a lot of people into Fairfield and is sure to help raise the real estate values. So, it's definitely a pro in Fairfield because, well, you can enjoy Napa quality wines at a fraction of the price and having these wineries are great for our local economy. Plus many, like Village 360, welcome kids!
In a very beautiful and scenic environment, and that makes Fairfield one of the best places to enjoy wine and it's drawing a lot of people to Fairfield Ca now.
Pro #5: Affordability and Diversity of Real Estate
There's a wide variety of what you can possibly get in Fairfield- from a condo to a 23 acre estate with vineyards, or a single family home. There are several new construction communities close to Travis Air Force Base, like One Lake Community and Monte Verde! If you're looking for homes for multi-generational living with an ADU or investment, you'll find homes in the Vintage Green Valley neighborhood. There's some residents right next to Nelda Mundy School, where you can find homes with an ADU. If you want to be closer to the Bay than you'll want to consider the cost of living in Vallejo, its lower than the California average but higher than the national average.
If you look at the the median price for single family homes in 2023 , you can see how affordable Fairfield is compared to other bay area cities like Oakland, San Rafael or even Benicia! At just $660,000 for the median home price in Fairfield, you can start to see the draw of attraction to Fairfield California, because you have all the access to Lake Tahoe, Sacramento, Napa, the Bay Area, but you have it at with a lower cost of living. The median real estate price in the Cordelia neighborhood is $676,381 while the average rent is $3,554. The median income in Fairfield California is $90,968 and the median home value is $547,015. Based on employment rates, job and business growth, and cost of living, young professionals will love the city of Fairfield where the Median Household Income $92,625 National $69,021.
Con #1: The Wind
The weather or more specifically, the wind. You'll find living in Fairfield, it can be a little bit windier than other areas. Sometimes 10 to 20 miles per hour.
We do have a lot of friends and family who live in Fairfield California and see a difference in wind depending on the zip codes. The most pleasant months in Fairfield are October, May and April. July is the hottest month. Snow in Fairfield is extremely rare.
Con #2: The Traffic
The traffic in California Fairfield !
Highway 80 here is a major freeway in our city, so you will find a lot of traffic for commuters going to the city or Vallejo. People from the Bay Area that live out here now, commute to the Bay due to high cost. Sacramento and Tahoe to the east of us, create more traffic in the Summer in Fairfield Ca. We have more traffic right now in this moment, because they are expanding Highway 80, but this is great news cause in a few years we should see less traffic here.
TRANSPORTATION
Average Commute time is 30.8 minutes. The National Average is 26.4 minutes. On top of that, Fairfield Ca has the Amtrak Fairfield-Vacaville corridor that goes all the way from Sacramento to San Francisco!
Con #3: How Spread Out the City Is
Fairfield, if you look at it on a map, it is a very large City, so depending on where you're trying to get to, it could sometimes take you much faster to maybe go to another city than travel somewhere within Fairfield itself.
So you do have a diversity of shops, but because it's so spread out, you will find that it takes you a little longer to get places in the city.
Con # 4: Wildfires & Homes Insurance
We do have fires here. It's very prevalent due to the landscape of Fairfield, one of the reasons it is one of the best places to live in Solano. So if you live in Rancho Solano, Green Valley, Paradise Valley, you will be at a higher risk, especially with Summer weather.
High fire risk areas and natural disasters are nothing new. This is just something that all of California residences have accepted as part of the cost of living in California.
Home Insurance Challenges
California's actually recently seen two major home insurance companies withdrawal-All State and State Farm.
But with that comes the majestic landscape! So in Rancho Solano, Green Valley, Paradise Valley, you're going to have the beautiful rolling green hills in the springtime. It's absolutely gorgeous.
But it might be a little challenging to find home insurance here and one that's actually affordable.
Home Insurance Brokers
But if you do need help, we have insurance brokers who have had success with our own clients and local residents, finding them home insurance policies that are still very affordable.
There is a real fire risk, especially in the summer, we're talking August, September, October so you'll need home insurance.
Let's Learn More About Fairfield
If you wanna learn more about Fairfield, see some of those neighborhoods that we mentioned, check out our Youtube Channel Living in Solano County here, or shoot us an email at Ratleffrealtygroup@gmail.com OR call/text Brandon at (707) 761-2473!
