Bahnhof Oerlikon is the best! It is very well connected to Zurich HB (8 minutes by train) and it has 8 train tracks (hence many trains pass by here). It's also only a 3 minutes train ride to Zurich airport.
The neighborhood itself is not really a neighborhood in the sense you would expect in Zurich and that's mainly because all the important stores are well concentrated in less than one square kilometer: huge Coopy City, huge Migros, Ochner Sport, Fust, Interdiscount, bookstores, famous restaurants (Rolli's, Chayenne), pharmacies open on Sundays, dentists and so on.
Hence, Oerlikon is a nice place to visit and a nice place to live in. However, there's annoying construction work happening at the moment. This makes the experience of passing through the train station and reaching your train track quite uncomfortable. read more