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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, I would do it. But I am from socal and went to grad school in berkeley.

Its expensive and complicated but people figure it out. We have family in the city, one non profit and one tech job, granted they bought their victorian years ago, but they make between 3-400k and live a great life. One thing that really strikes me when I visit is that they have an amazing network of friends all over and are all super active: hiking, skiing, camping, etc, and the kids are all friends and roam all over the city on public transportation. School was definitely harder to figure out but both kids did magnet public up to high school, then private. One now in UC and the other applying out of state.

You're looking in areas where there is more uniform wealth, better public schools in some areas, and you'll have the HHI to do more than fine. There are intangibles that make it worth it for some people (I am one of them) but the downsides of paradise are real: high taxes, housing costs, commute (caltrain is good though), fires/insurance costs.

I would move back if we could afford it and get jobs--I came close a few years ago, but it didn't pan out. I think about scraping our pennies together to retire there. [/quote]

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