Where in the World is Fremont?

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS FREMONT?

    Fremont, CA, (approximately 185,000 population) is a real town! In fact, the Fremont described in "The Changing Earth Trilogy" is a fairly accurate description of the Fremont of today. Of course, the seas haven't risen yet and the schools do not yet have clinics, Media Centers or mini-split sessions. And the three airports serving the Bay Area are still above water, thank you! But the physical layout is the same.
    Directions in the Bay Area are misleading. One normally thinks of the Pacific Ocean as being to the west, but it actually west and southwest. This throws all the other directions off just a bit. North is really northwest, south is really southeast and so forth. But we try not to think of that. We simply think of ourselves as being the In place to be!
    Fremont was created in 1956 by the unification of 5 small districts: Mission San Jose, Niles, Centerville, Irvington and Warm Springs. Two other small districts in the area, Decoto and Alvarado, elected to form Union City. Newark is located west (southwest) of Fremont. Fremont is a long and narrow city, difficult to put on one map the size of a web page, but we have tried! The original separation of the city is often evident when attempting to drive from one district to another. Unless you are in the right part of town, there is often not a straight way from one part of the city to another, especially at rush hour! We hope all the fictional disasters of "The Changing Earth Trilogy" do not put us on a bigger map---a F.E.M.A. Map!

Bordered by San Francisco Bay on the west, the East Bay Hills on the east, Union City and Hayward on the north and Milpitas and San Jose on the south, Fremont contains both a solid business and manufacturing base and diverse residential neighborhoods. It can be reached by automobile on two interstate highways---I-880 and I-680. The area is connected to the Peninsula by the Hayward San Mateo Bridge and the Dumbarton Bridge. And yes, the commute from the Livermore Valley into Silicon Valley is almost as bad as described in the books! If you are fortunate enough to live and work close to a B.A.R.T. station (Bay Area Rapid Transit), your commute isnt quite as bad!
Fremont's year-round good weather and financial stability results in a fairly non-mobile population which unfortunately forces up the prices of homes. Fremonts public schools include six high schools (five attendance areas), six junior high schools and, at last count, thirty elementary schools. Because of the still-growing population, issues such as student population, program parity and possible boundary changes keep school board meetings well-attended, quite vocal and lasting way too long into the wee hours of the morning!