Having lived there, the county building is not well organized for moving around, and I think constantly requires a TON of upkeep – however it is very beautiful to walk around. The auditorium/civic center also really needed a lot of work when I last went to a guitar show there.
The farmers market is really a thing to behold, but grocery shopping in Marin itself is a very odd thing that I found difficult and disquieting during my 16 years with a home there. I think everything is aimed at getting you to go to THE if not A farmers market and buy everything for 4-6x what it costs at Trader Joes – and if you can’t go to Farmer’s Market there is Whole Earth that’ll charge you even more. Anything not a super-premium market involves horror movie lighting, insanely weird in-store organization and marketing, plus something were Marin seems to act as a nexus all the “Best Foods is Helmanns” twilight zoning of brands.
