If you can afford it, the SF Bay Area is the greatest place in the world (San Francisco: real estate market, rentals)

[bmw335xi]

Originally Posted by Bisaro TMF

Wrong

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...6-78187?row=16

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...3-68896?row=15

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...3_M27281-27412

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...00-85828?row=5

These are ugly old houses, see people here get so caught up with living in the Bay Area that they don't realize what else is out there. Just look at homes in Houston for $450k and see what kind of gorgeous large homes you can buy. Plus Houston (just one example) is a million times better than Brentwood or any city in the East Bay. These homes in Houston would cost $150k! Houston is just one example too. The Bay Area is a rip off.

[Bisaro TMF]

Originally Posted by sav858

Pleasant Hill schools, that's why.

Nothing wrong with Pleasant Hill Schools.

[Bisaro TMF]

Originally Posted by bmw335xi

These are ugly old houses, see people here get so caught up with living in the Bay Area that they don't realize what else is out there. Just look at homes in Houston for $450k and see what kind of gorgeous large homes you can buy. Plus Houston (just one example) is a million times better than Brentwood or any city in the East Bay. These homes in Houston would cost $150k! Houston is just one example too. The Bay Area is a rip off.

Ugly Old Houses are what you find out in San Francisco's Richmond District. These are newer built homes. Have fun living in Houston. One summer and you'll be running back to SF. You think the Crime is bad here. You won't last a month in Houston.

[mini_cute]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

yes but what does 1.5 M get you in Marin? A 1000sf ranch home?

Silicon Valley is where the jobs are, who works in SF except for bankers and lawyers?

SF is a dumpy run down town for rich old yuppies and starry-eyed twentysomethings. Oh, so is Manhattan.

To be fair, SF now has lots of tech jobs too and will increasingly more over time.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...growth-in-jobs

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci...alesforce.html

[NYSD1995]

Originally Posted by mini_cute

To be fair, SF now has lots of tech jobs too and will increasingly more over time.

San Francisco Beating Silicon Valley With Growth in Jobs - Bloomberg Business

Growing fast, but in terms of absolute number, a fraction. SF doesn't have the commercial real estate to support the huge campuses that really big companies need. Of all my clients, the ones in SF are all small / startup type companies. The big corps are all in South Bay or even east bay.

[Bisaro TMF]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

yes but what does 1.5 M get you in Marin? A 1000sf ranch home?

Silicon Valley is where the jobs are, who works in SF except for bankers and lawyers?

SF is a dumpy run down town for rich old yuppies and starry-eyed twentysomethings. Oh, so is Manhattan.

Lots of Tech Jobs moving into SF. Many of the companies down in the valley have offices in SF now.



https://www.redfin.com/CA/Larkspur/4...9/home/1192338

[mini_cute]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

Growing fast, but in terms of absolute number, a fraction. SF doesn't have the commercial real estate to support the huge campuses that really big companies need.

I don't disagree that SV proper has more number of tech jobs. But your statement was "Silicon Valley is where the jobs are, who works in SF except for bankers and lawyers?" which is inaccurate.

[NYSD1995]

Originally Posted by mini_cute

I don't disagree that SV proper has more number of tech jobs. But your statement was "Silicon Valley is where the jobs are, who works in SF except for bankers and lawyers?" which is inaccurate.

I should have said - "what percentage of homeowners in Marin work in tech jobs in SF" my guess is very, very few. Most people in Marin are older, professional types who can't commute into the Peninsula because it's too long a commute, they work in finance, consulting, professional service type jobs that tend to be in the downtowns of major cities vs. tech jobs in the suburbs. There's a reason so many jobs are in the suburbs after all.

[bmw335xi]

Originally Posted by Bisaro TMF

Ugly Old Houses are what you find out in San Francisco's Richmond District. These are newer built homes. Have fun living in Houston. One summer and you'll be running back to SF. You think the Crime is bad here. You won't last a month in Houston.

I have friends and family in Houston. One of them lived in San Francisco. One of them lived in Alameda. Crime in Houston isn't that bad because it is spread out, unlike San Francisco or Oakland. If you live in a nice area, it's really safe. If you live in a bad area, it's dangerous. However, most parts you don't have to worry about crime flowing one street over into an area perceived as nice like you see constantly in Oakland and San Francisco. And I would take the heat over the cold fog any day.

The houses you showed are ugly, small, old homes and you'd still be living in a town middle of nowhere with nothing special about it. It's ridiculous that living in a crappy town like Brentwood, you still have to make housing sacrifices.

(I don't plan on living in Houston, but I would rather live there than here, especially if my option was Brentwood, there are 100 cities I'd rather live than Brentwood, which are cheaper and nicer)

[sav858]

Originally Posted by Bisaro TMF

Nothing wrong with Pleasant Hill Schools.

They're "good" schools, by CA "standards" at least, but they're certainly not the "great" schools than Walnut Creek is known for.