I wouldn't live in this town for all the money in the world.
Well... OK... maybe for *all* of it. But anything short of that and no deal. :-)
It's kinda funny really. They do pay people a definte premium to work in the SF office, 'cuz they have to. But people here that are even making what would be *really* good money elsewhere on the planet live like house-poor paupers.
But when *studio* apartments are $2500 to $3000/mo for really crappy parts of town... and where a $750K house is a "fixer-upper"...
All for the privilege of driving in the worlds' worst traffic.
Beats me. Honestly. It beats me.
Yeah...my brother just moved away from there. He was making good money, but even SHARING a dinky apartment with a couple of guys he knew through church was costing him something like $1500 a month.
My itty-bitty house...he said would have sold for ten times as much in SF. Ten times! That's hard to fathom. He said almost no one can afford to actually own land there.
But it's a pretty area. Too bad we couldn't just evacuate the entire population and start over economically too.