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[quote=Anonymous]Just spent a week in San Francisco. I was surprised how affordable it is for everyday items, excluding real estate. Absolutely insane prices for rents and mortgages. A 2BR, 2BA apartment that you can get in Mt. Pleasant in DC for $500K would sell for over $1 million in SF in a similarly convenient area. Nuts.

The weather was gorgeous and being in the Bay Area reminded me that DC is an overpriced, mediocre food desert. The food in SF and the produce in grocery stores was so good and really affordable. Drinks were cheap at local bars. Public transportation is reliable and affordable. Traffic was better than LA or DC (though, I never drove between SF and Silicon Valley - that's where traffic is a parking lot).

I liked Oakland a lot and had some nice times visiting friends there. If reminds me a lot of Brooklyn or DC 10 to 15 years ago. Still scary to most white people, but the real estate gains will be massive in the next 10 years when all the young tech workers start having kids and many people get priced out of the peninsula/SF. If you like inner DC, you will really like Oakland. Similar in density and the weather is always nice there, regardless of weather in SF. You can get to downtown SF from Oakland in 10-15 minutes. It was super fast and easy.

Schools are pretty crappy in SF and Oakland. Best public schools are in Silicon Valley and San Jose, but those areas are just so absurdly overpriced and ugly. Seriously, they look like Gaithersburg or Fairfax, but at 10x the price. Silicon Valley is so overrated and miserable. Nice weather, but filled with nouveau riche techies and the poor souls just trying go hang on in the most expensive area of the country. [/quote]

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