San Francisco Niketalkers, is this really how you guys are living?

Mostly the idiot transplants and people who have never lived in a proper city and get too excited about SF end up doing that. Most Bay Area natives know you can get your own studio for that much or an apartment for $2100- $2400 15 minutes outside of the city/in the less "popular" parts of the city. Which is still a lot but pretty standard in the non **** parts of the Bay/LA

Before I moved out of SF to my own spot, I was renting a room in a 2 bedroom spot for $1000 in the city. I moved out because I can afford my own spot now, but I live in a luxury apartment 25 mins away versus paying the same for an unrenovated spot built in 1920 in the city.

You can literally take a 10 minute BART ride to Oakland and get great spots for a lot cheaper, but idiots still think all of Oakland is just like East Oakland. The Piedmont, Lake Merrit, and Oakland Hills areas are nicer and cleaner than any part of the city, and Downtown Oakland has improved A LOT
2100? For an apartment that's wild.
That's a 5 bedroom crib around my way with a pool :lol
 
I woke up at 530 am. Worked till 7 pm. Just home now. Tired of this bay area grind. Rent sucks and so does the crazy work ethic. Been getting in at 730 leaving round 7 everyday.

I assume you are in tech right? Way to mess up SF!!!! Haha. Kidding, kidding.

What really sucks overall is the culture we are losing in SF. Things are getting so stale out here it's almost unrecognizable. I mean I am for having places getting better but the people that should prosper are the locals and not the out of towners moving in. I've lived in SF for the last 8 years and I am finally ready to move out cause I need more room. I have a 450 square foot studio for a little over a grand but once I leave, some jerk off out of towner will get this place and pay double that amount. It's just he growing trend out here where locals leave and new people that can afford it move in. I would love to own a place in SF but it's just impossible with the housing market out here. It's just a overall sad situation in the Bay Area and honestly I don't see it getting any better at this point.
 
Mostly the idiot transplants and people who have never lived in a proper city and get too excited about SF end up doing that. Most Bay Area natives know you can get your own studio for that much or an apartment for $2100- $2400 15 minutes outside of the city/in the less "popular" parts of the city. Which is still a lot but pretty standard in the non **** parts of the Bay/LA

Before I moved out of SF to my own spot, I was renting a room in a 2 bedroom spot for $1000 in the city. I moved out because I can afford my own spot now, but I live in a luxury apartment 25 mins away versus paying the same for an unrenovated spot built in 1920 in the city.

You can literally take a 10 minute BART ride to Oakland and get great spots for a lot cheaper, but idiots still think all of Oakland is just like East Oakland. The Piedmont, Lake Merrit, and Oakland Hills areas are nicer and cleaner than any part of the city, and Downtown Oakland has improved A LOT
2100? For an apartment that's wild.
That's a 5 bedroom crib around my way with a pool :lol

Where u from, Mississippi?
 
Glad I got the hell out of the bay area :lol


$450/mo single apartment next to campus in Oregon with all utilities paid. No tax. I'm good with ever going back to CA ever again :lol

I always found Berkeley and Eugene eerily comparable, I'd pay 2-3x as much to live in Berkeley without a second thought. :lol
 
Mostly the idiot transplants and people who have never lived in a proper city and get too excited about SF end up doing that. Most Bay Area natives know you can get your own studio for that much or an apartment for $2100- $2400 15 minutes outside of the city/in the less "popular" parts of the city. Which is still a lot but pretty standard in the non **** parts of the Bay/LA

Before I moved out of SF to my own spot, I was renting a room in a 2 bedroom spot for $1000 in the city. I moved out because I can afford my own spot now, but I live in a luxury apartment 25 mins away versus paying the same for an unrenovated spot built in 1920 in the city.

You can literally take a 10 minute BART ride to Oakland and get great spots for a lot cheaper, but idiots still think all of Oakland is just like East Oakland. The Piedmont, Lake Merrit, and Oakland Hills areas are nicer and cleaner than any part of the city, and Downtown Oakland has improved A LOT
2100? For an apartment that's wild.
That's a 5 bedroom crib around my way with a pool :lol

Where u from, Mississippi?
Negative south FL
 
 
Hipsters don't care
Pretty much. It's all about location for majority of these cats who move into SF.

IMO, If I had a choice to move back to the Bay Area...I'd sacrifice my time with Caltrain/Bart to get to work. Prices in the city are too expensive.

Side note, I thought cost of living in NoVA would have been a little cheaper. I was wrong about that 
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$2100 can get you a whoooole lot in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta.

You can literally get a loft with floor to ceiling windows, hardwood floors, etc. in the heart of Atlanta for about $1500/month (if that). Google skyhouse Atlanta for an example of what I'm talking about.
 
You can literally get a loft with floor to ceiling windows, hardwood floors, etc. in the heart of Atlanta for about $1500/month (if that). Google skyhouse Atlanta for an example of what I'm talking about.
Just googled this...I am sad lol
 
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You have to be an idiot to settle for this. Most transplants are closed-minded to anywhere besides the city and never go out to the eastbay or peninsula. There's even areas away from the Mission and downtown that are less expensive, it's just transplants want to be in the areas that are "happening".

thank god they think like this in NYC..they think if its not Manhattan or Williamsburg its not legit.. mitigates da hipster scum to downtown :lol
 
Same thing happened in vancouver.
It happens when a particular group comes in mass from overseas to over pay and get in bidding wars ,to live as close to downtown as possible.
The place they come from is way more crowded and expensive ,so its a break for them but the packed density and rediculous prices just cause white flight.
Any mention of crowding and prices then just has people label you an entitled racist.
If anyone thinks canada is running canada still i dont know what to tell you
 
People blaming hipsters instead of foreign investment are out to lunch in the worst way.
That was always there.
 
Lol these aren't even hipsters. Hipsters died in 2011. I wouldn't even consider what I see hipsters. Hipsters don't work in tech. Let's not forget sf was like this before. And then boooom. Everyone bounced. Sf in the early 2000s was a semi ghost town. We shall see.
 
I dont understand how/why people decided to pay those prices.
 
Lol these aren't even hipsters. Hipsters died in 2011. I wouldn't even consider what I see hipsters. Hipsters don't work in tech. Let's not forget sf was like this before. And then boooom. Everyone bounced. Sf in the early 2000s was a semi ghost town. We shall see.
Once Apps become stagnant than they might thin out. These are tech/college Hipsters in my eyes.
 
I live in Walnut Creek (about 30 mins outside of SF) right next to the BART station so access to Oakland/Berkeley. It's a really nice area and my rent is $2,000/month for a 1BR which is still high but my employer pays for it so its all good. The issue with the Bay is the same issue NY has: limited space due to geography. There's a finite about of real estate and a gigantic job market that's experiencing huge growth. Add those together and you've got dudes paying $1800 for a bunk beds. I've from Atlanta and I know y'all are living lavish on $1,000/month but you can't compare land locked cities like Atlanta/Dallas/Houston/Oklahoma City to LA/SF/SD/NY.
 
yep. kids just want to live in "the city"
it's a bunch of folks in their 20s trying to get their "FRIENDS" on
went back to a chick's place and she was staying in a closet and it felt weird "hanging out" btw, this lady was 30 :x
 
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Lol these aren't even hipsters. Hipsters died in 2011. I wouldn't even consider what I see hipsters. Hipsters don't work in tech. Let's not forget sf was like this before. And then boooom. Everyone bounced. Sf in the early 2000s was a semi ghost town. We shall see.

I can definitely see the real estate bubble bursting in the Bay Area in the coming years. People never learn. They assume this type of economic growth will continue into into perpetuity and it won't. Once the growth stops who are they gonna sell their $4,000/month 1BRs to?
 
Lol these aren't even hipsters. Hipsters died in 2011. I wouldn't even consider what I see hipsters. Hipsters don't work in tech. Let's not forget sf was like this before. And then boooom. Everyone bounced. Sf in the early 2000s was a semi ghost town. We shall see.

I can definitely see the real estate bubble bursting in the Bay Area in the coming years. People never learn. They assume this type of economic growth will continue into into perpetuity and it won't. Once the growth stops who are they gonna sell their $4,000/month 1BRs to?

those making 100k are already struggling to keep up with the wealthy. there's still those guys making 200k that will pay for it. until the bubble bursts completely, there are still a lot of folks willing to pay these prices. i do see it starting to slow down. work in the mission and a lot of these smaller tech companies are starting to slow down
heck, even twitter is trying to lease out all that office space in their big HQ
 
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