A NJ Teacher considering a move to SF (San Francisco, Santa Clara: mortgage, construction jobs)

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Perma Bear

No. Those tract homes are historical treasures that represent a time when the average Bay Area native had a good quality of life, a patch of dirt to call their own and a piece of the American Dream. We should bulldoze the green space first. It literally serves no purpose except fluffy green hippy bs.
75% of the Bay Area is wasted undeveloped space.

Yeah, DOWN WITH PARKS! More high-rise Manhattan-style condos with apartments for 1 mill and up!


How are your rants helping the OP? Remember, the thread is about helping the OP.

[Perma Bear]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Yeah, DOWN WITH PARKS! More high-rise Manhattan-style condos with apartments for 1 mill and up!


How are your rants helping the OP? Remember, the thread is about helping the OP.

Op is stubborn about overpaying to live the hipster dream. She can't be helped.
As long as no tract homes are harmed I don't care if you build high rises on the green space.

[TR95]

Originally Posted by Perma Bear

Op is stubborn about overpaying to live the hipster dream. She can't be helped.
As long as no tract homes are harmed I don't care if you build high rises on the green space.

Looks like she is already beyond you with being bel to pay rent and married pulling in over $180k with her spouse so don't think she needs your help. LMAO.

[TR95]

Originally Posted by TheGreatCurve

You made it all the way from SF to Santa Cruz via 17 in only 47 minutes total? I highly doubt that. But then again this week the traffic is really light. Even the shopping malls are deserted. A lot of people must be out of town this week. Try driving down to Santa Cruz on a Saturday or Sunday morning in the summer on a hot day. It's a nightmare.

BTW, the SF Bay Area also has about 8M people but the difference is that most of the 8M people in NYC don't have cars, whereas most of the 8M people in the Bay Area do have cars. That makes car traffic VERY bad.

First you say it was a shortened week so my commute over the Bay Bridge is unrealistic, then it was because it was summer. Now you use the same concept for my drive to Santa Cruz. If you can read I said the 101 and 85 to Santa Cruz, not "SF." To get back home in the East Bay today it took an hour and 35. How about, when I have a hella commute I'll just post here to let you know rather than defend my actual experiences. Just give it up. The OP knows what she's getting into and you are not helping her if she is to live in SF and either work in SF or commute somewhere maybe Daly City or other place within 15 miles. It just won't be that bad compared to where she is coming from.

Laughable - the NY/NJ MSA is at 20M and the Bay Area while not an MSA is at 7M. Hmmm, how would that difference impact commutes. Just laughable.

[Perma Bear]

Originally Posted by TR95

Looks like she is already beyond you with being bel to pay rent and married pulling in over $180k with her spouse so don't think she needs your help. LMAO.

She won't make that

[TR95]

Originally Posted by Perma Bear

She won't make that

She will make $58 plus another $100k or so from her spouse so in a couple years yes she will. She will have no problem finding a teaching job and if here husband is a competent contractor he will be fine with the demand here for the next several years until the next recession. Hope you're ok making your 50g's and trolling city data.

[Perma Bear]

Originally Posted by TR95

She will make $58 plus another $100k or so from her spouse so in a couple years yes she will. She will have no problem finding a teaching job and if here husband is a competent contractor he will be fine with the demand here for the next several years until the next recession. Hope you're ok making your 50g's and trolling city data.

Bs in the 100k, maybe they'll make 130 if they're lucky

[TheGreatCurve]

Originally Posted by Perma Bear

No. Those tract homes are historical treasures that represent a time when the average Bay Area native had a good quality of life, a patch of dirt to call their own and a piece of the American Dream. We should bulldoze the green space first. It literally serves no purpose except fluffy green hippy bs.
75% of the Bay Area is wasted undeveloped space.

That was then, this is now. The times move on. You wouldn't give up your smartphone or big flat screen HDTV to go back to a corded rotary landline phone or tiny B/W tube TV that everyone used when those houses were built, would you?

[tikkasf]

GC;
I hope the move works out for you. Sometime next year is your current plan? If so, around the beginning of the year?

[TheGreatCurve]

Originally Posted by TR95

First you say it was a shortened week so my commute over the Bay Bridge is unrealistic, then it was because it was summer. Now you use the same concept for my drive to Santa Cruz. If you can read I said the 101 and 85 to Santa Cruz, not "SF." To get back home in the East Bay today it took an hour and 35. How about, when I have a hella commute I'll just post here to let you know rather than defend my actual experiences. Just give it up. The OP knows what she's getting into and you are not helping her if she is to live in SF and either work in SF or commute somewhere maybe Daly City or other place within 15 miles. It just won't be that bad compared to where she is coming from.

Laughable - the NY/NJ MSA is at 20M and the Bay Area while not an MSA is at 7M. Hmmm, how would that difference impact commutes. Just laughable.

That doesn't even make any sense. 85 doesn't go to Santa Cruz, so how can you take 101 to 85 to Santa Cruz? And do you live on the highway? Travel times are usually indicated from point of departure to point of destination. "101" is not a point of departure.

Yeah, but almost everyone commutes via public transportation in the NYC metropolitan area. Not true in the Bay Area. All the trains, subways, buses, etc. in the NYC area reduces surface street traffic. In the Bay Area, all the highways are packed because so many people drive their cars.