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

check out alameda

wherever the gays are

Stay home. We don't want to east coast scum ruining our utopia in San Francisco. Meth is cheaper in Eugene, move there.

Alameda is good or Castro Valley.

You can can also look into Concord and Antioch. Bart goes out there too. Oakland has a rather high crime rate so don't live there.

Berkeley is an option if you like University type towns with a 60's throwback sort of mentality and the rents are controlled.

65K isn't a great salary in the Bay Area. It's OK but you'll have to rent. Unless your wife works you'll be on the lower end of the earning scale. You'll get real sticker shock when you look at housing prices.

The weather is great though and you can run Lake Merritt at lunch.

Ummmmm sorry to break it to you, but if you have a job in Oakland, you don't have a job in San Francisco. You have a job in Oakland.

Piedmont.

gopre5k wrote:

Ummmmm sorry to break it to you, but if you have a job in Oakland, you don't have a job in San Francisco. You have a job in Oakland.

Yup, and on 65K a year the closest affordable place will be halfway to Nevada.

Ask for a raise.

guy with a new job wrote:

I just got a new job in SF and was wondering where I could live. My starting salary is 65K and my wife and I will be moving out in April.

The job specifically is in downtown Oakland. We have a two-month old daughter so good schools are a priority. Where is the best place considering:

-access to BART

-shopping, supermarkets, etc.

-access to trails, hiking, etc.

-low crime

-good schools

-cost of living

we would ideally like to find an apt at first (1 or 2 bedrooms) under maybe a corporate lease and then move into a house after that. We would prefer east Bay but other ideas and suggestions are welcome.

Help a brother out here!

on 65k, you can have access to buses.

if you want more of the things on your list you need more money. for every 25k increase in pay you get you can pick one more thing.

Warrior wrote:

Alameda is good or Castro Valley.

the cheapest house in alameda right now is a 499 sq foot one bedroom, one bath house for $279,000.

here is a link to the oakland mls. you can do an easy search for houses in the AREA.

http://www.johnhomesonline.com/mls-search.php

my wife would work and her salary would most likely be 30-40K, so we're looking at 95-105K.

I said SF just cause it was general...I'm willing to commute.

Castro st area is a great place to live , and train , even late at night!!

I lived in Oakland for two years in 2003-2004. Nice area. Used to jog down to Lake Merritt for daily runs, would use the Piedmont track for speedwork, and would go to Joaquin Miller Park, Redwood Regional Park, or Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley for long runs. The East Bay has some amazing trails.

A buddy and I rented a two bedroom apartment on Vernon Street and paid $515 each. This was 4 years ago, so it would probably be almost $700 per person today. I would recommend my old neighborhood, or, as I said above, Piedmont.

Pull up Google maps, I'll tell you where to look. You'll want to check out the area encircled by Piedmont Ave, Pleasant Valley, Moraga, Highland, Wildwood, Crocker, Mandana. That whole area, though I wouldn't recommend being too close to MacArthur. Anything off of College Ave seemed decent too, plus that's right near the Rockridge BART station. At that point you're almost in Berkeley though.

You'll do fine on 95-105K in the east bay. My wife and I were in a similar situation a couple of years ago. You'll have to rent, but there are plenty of decent affordable places (maybe 1250-1750 per month)in Oakland, Berkeley, and Alameda. If your working in Downtown Oakland, I'd look into the neighborhoods around Lake Merritt (Adams Point, Lake Shore, China Hill, etc...). You won't have easy access to BART, but AC transit runs a bus to downtown and if your up for it its an easy bike ride (~2-5 miles depending on where you end up).

As far as good schools are concerned, well you said your daughter is only 2 months old, so you have a few years to up your earnings, then maybe try to rent a place in Piedmont. No offense, but on normal people salaries (ie. not investment banking/big law firm/venture capital) you probably won't be able to buy in any of the good public school neighborhoods. Best of luck.

Live wherever. A house is a house, who cares where.

The main thing: make sure you get yourself a nice whistle tip. Wooo - WOOOOOOOO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnzw_i4YmKk

ok so we've been looking in Walnut Creek, the Piedmont area of Oakland, Emeryville, Dublin, and Pleasanton. Where are the best places to live there? We've been looking at numerous places online but the reviews are terrible.

Walnut Creek. Trails, a few excellent schools (Northgate). Cost of living, you're screwed anyways.

We have high taxes to keep white trash like you from moving in and raiding our backyard marijuana crops. Don't move here. Stay with your bibles back in Mississippi or Indiana. Really, don't move to California, because we don't want your kind.