I have read about the $4k rents of San Francisco but never been to the city until this month on a conference my wife attended. We went with our small kids too and it made me appreciate the afffordable community we live in (not in CA).
The city is good, well connected with public transit, i would say air is clean compared to other big cities, many things to do. I particularly liked food quality in restaurants. Yes there are clearly psychotic homeless people on most streets.
But I still cant figure out how majority of people here make ends meet, let alone able to follow WCI advice for retirement planning. Many restaurants dont have a kids menu, eventually I came to conclusion that families tend to not live here (this brings up a point about what kind of future will this city have if its so hard for families to live in it). The city feels to me as another country.
It was good experience to see first hand HCOL area. Confirms advice written in other posts about such areas.
The city is good, well connected with public transit, i would say air is clean compared to other big cities, many things to do. I particularly liked food quality in restaurants. Yes there are clearly psychotic homeless people on most streets.
But I still cant figure out how majority of people here make ends meet, let alone able to follow WCI advice for retirement planning. Many restaurants dont have a kids menu, eventually I came to conclusion that families tend to not live here (this brings up a point about what kind of future will this city have if its so hard for families to live in it). The city feels to me as another country.
It was good experience to see first hand HCOL area. Confirms advice written in other posts about such areas.
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