NRR: moving to San Francisco, CA: where to live???

Fremont needs some work, but it's certainly not a dump. Mission Peak, Mill Creek Rd, Coyote Hills, and the Alameda Creek quarries are awesome. Fremont has some GREAT places to run. I trained there for years. Aren't they thinking about moving the A's there? By the way, Tri-City was demolished to build condos.

Same question here - bit different situation.

Making an internal transfer/promotion within the same company taking me to San Francisco. Excited about the opportunity for work and to live in a great area.

My fiancee' and I (30/29 years old) will be moving out in the middle of March. We'll probably look to start a family in 2-3 years so we'd like to just move into a place that could be family-friendly but still give us easy access to downtown San Francisco (as that's where my office will be).

I'm aware that San Francisco is an expensive area, but I'm not entirely sure HOW expeisive. Is it realistic to get a 4 BR house with a yard for $650,000 in a good part of the area.

As with everyone on letsrun, I'd also appreciate consideration to good running, but I'm confident there's plenty of good options for that in San Francisco.

I appreciate your help.

Creed, you want to live in the Sunset, near Golden Gate Park, its near amazing running, the N-Judah goes right by and will take you straight to downtown. It's not one of the really nice neighborhoods but its definitely not a bad one either and its way more affordable. I haven't looked at real estate prices recently but 4 BR house would definitely be in $650,000 ballpark or at least not too much more.

Thanks for the advice. We'll definately take a look there.

Any other nice areas worth looking at?

u r dead. chokeland is a pisshole as bad as eugene, or. the place sucks.

Got a job opportunity in SF. Probably in Financial District but may also have to head towards Silicon Valley occasionally (1/4 of the year). Any recommendations on places to live?

Probably don't want to pay SF rent so willing to commute a little.

South bay areas w/good running areas and proximity to BART, rent range from $1,200 to $1,500.

Any suggestions and comments would be welcomed.

Creed wrote:

I'm aware that San Francisco is an expensive area, but I'm not entirely sure HOW expeisive. Is it realistic to get a 4 BR house with a yard for $650,000 in a good part of the area.

A 4 BR (!) house in a nice part of SF will cost at least twice that. Maybe three times. Check zillow for the details.

If that's amazing to you, well, I'm equally amazed to read that Bristol Palin bought a 5BR place for $170K.

don't buy yet. housing prices are still falling. we're still in the middle of the 2008 george w. bush economic depression.

Just so you know, and this is supposed to be informative, rather than critical, $65K is quite a low salary by the standards of the Bay Area. Unless your salary ramps up considerably, you will never be able to buy something "nice," not even on a combined income of $100K.

If it gets you out here, great, but in a few years, plan on changing jobs to something that pays a lot better. To put it another way, it's too early to be planning ahead till the day your daughter goes to school - your situation will have changed by then.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/apa/

In the Bay Area, to be middle class, you really need to be rich. To buy a house in a reasonable area, I'd guess you need a household income of at least $250K-300K. Unless, possibly, you are willing to endure a very long commute.

Also, if you are black - I am not, but neither am I white - be aware that the Bay Area is quite ghettoized by race. Many of the "nice" parts of the East Bay are -very- white. I went to a party yesterday, in the heart of Oakland, where there must have been 40 white people, two sorta Asian looking people, and me. Right outside, every single person walking down the street was black.

the whole u.s.a. has the same human race terribly segregated by skin color. it's really stupd, actually it's pathetic. in my country we solved that problem 7,000 years ago. we have the blackest and the whitest people integrated and living together without anyone making us so. we've had black and white rulers, warlords, clergy, acamedicians, etc., from 7,000 years ago.

My friend lives in Pacific and seems to enjoy the running...though I think the commute into the city is a little tougher from there.

frisco is a police state now. bart pigs can execute black males for fun and recreation. the frisco d.a. is the former frisco p.d. chief, a corrupt mexican taco bender who was kicked out of l.a.p.d.