Oh actually there are two Piedmont Avenues. The one in Berkeley is decent in terms of location, basically near all of the fraternities, College Avenue and Telegraph Avenue. Here is a tip,if you are near Piedmont Avenue and Dwight, Haste, Channing, Durant or Bancroft you will be near the campus and in the thick of the fraternities and sorities. The places are cheap..but some really suck. As you start going south you are in exclusive neighborhood land (Parker, Forest, Russell and Derby) over by that Piedmont Avenue there is a ton of foot traffic, and you are near the stadium an some running trails.