The trope that SF is more expensive than the rest of the Bay Area isn’t even true, at least not anymore. I pay $1650 for a studio apartment in a decent neighborhood near a tech shuttle stop. That’s cheaper than Stanford’s student housing in Palo Alto.
you also have to factor in the fact that, as high as it is, housing cost in SF and in the Bay are still double digits percentage lower than NYC. Living in San José or Palo Alto is something like 30% less expensive then in NYC. That's big, considering you might be paying 35k a year for your housing.
Yes you do - Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, and nearby peninsula cities are even more expensive than SF. At least in SF you can get a nice new construction apartment for 875k.
You can find a cheap house for $1.25M in San Mateo or on the outskirts of San Jose, but it’ll still be pretty small and far away.
Um no. Mountain View is not the same price as SF. SF is far more expensive than Mountain View. My current apartment in Mountain View is on the order of 3x cheaper per square foot compared to when I lived in SF. When I was in SF, I was living around the tenderloin which is already cheaper than most "normal" places in SF.
My current apartment is only a few hundred feet from the Castro downtown and is around $1200 for a 1000sqft 2 bedroom apartment. I'd like to see someone find something like that in SF for the same price.
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