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Old 07-28-2017, 12:57 PM
 
Location: Ithaca, New York
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I will buy a car when in San Francisco.
I use busses or metros just to go to work, during the weekend I usually drive.
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Old 07-28-2017, 01:03 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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I will buy a car when in San Francisco.
I use busses or metros just to go to work, during the weekend I usually drive.
Then you'll have to worry about parking. You'll have to look for a rental that provides parking (some do, some don't). There are a lot of car break-ins due to the large homeless population, but that's less of an issue in some parts of the west side of town, and some of the tri-plexes out there have parking on the ground floor of the building.
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Old 07-28-2017, 01:21 PM
 
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Co-workers pay up to $600 a month for off street garage parking in the city proper...

The alternative is a car with dings and scrapes and one that has to be moved often and parking sometimes blocks away... depending on where in the city... and as Ruth mentions... smash and grab is big in the Bay Area and even bigger in the SF...

If you find a unit with quality off street parking make sure you figure it's worth when comparing... it is no small benefit.
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Old 07-28-2017, 01:24 PM
 
Location: Ithaca, New York
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Co-workers pay up to $600 a month for off street garage parking in the city proper...

The alternative is a car with dings and scrapes and one that has to be moved often and parking sometimes blocks away... depending on where in the city... and as Ruth mentions... smash and grab is big in the Bay Area and even bigger in the SF...

If you find a unit with quality off street parking make sure you figure it's worth when comparing... it is no small benefit.
Thanks, I will consider the parking space when I go to SF.
$600 a month for parking it is expensive.
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Old 07-28-2017, 01:32 PM
 
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Thanks, I will consider the parking space when I go to SF.
$600 a month for parking it is expensive.
Did not want to scare you but it something easily overlooked... after a few tickets, break-ins and scrapes... some feel it worth the peace of mind...

I work with a fair amount of traveling nurses on assignment... one of the reasons they come here is to experience San Francisco... a car can complicate things.

Even those that are only passing through have positives for the experience... but few tend to make SF their forever city... many that like the SF Bay Area gravitate to the East Bay when the family expands.
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Old 07-28-2017, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Ithaca, New York
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I will consider a good insurance to cover the car by these issues.
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Old 07-28-2017, 01:39 PM
 
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It is not so much the policy but the deductible....

Most find the cost to replace a side window or repaint a bumper or fix a ding tend to be right around the deductible cost.

I work with one nurse on a 9 month contract... she actually keeps here car in the East Bay and uses BART to reach it... since she is new to the area she is always exploring on days off... Napa/Sonoma, Tahoe, Yosemite, Redwoods, California Coast... but a work friend had extra space 3 blocks from BART.

She really does like living in SF... has a Studio and everything is nearby...
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Old 07-28-2017, 01:48 PM
 
Location: Palo Alto, CA
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NOLA 101 is correct about SF transportation, I"m a former NY-er. It is inadequate, though better than no transit at all.

No US city outside of NY compares with a typical European city re: public transit. And by European standards, NYC transit is 3rd-tier, maybe 2nd-tier, in quality, especially when you consider travel other than outskirt-to-core.
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Old 07-28-2017, 01:50 PM
 
Location: Northern California
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Default public transit in SF

Overall, it's quite good. In terms of the number of transit vehicles operating per square mile, probably one of the best in the country. Service reliability is not as good as e.g. Seattle. There is a rail system, running partly in tunnels and partly at street level in the outer neighborhoods. It is not remotely like the NY subway; Philly or Boston might be closer comparisons.
I've lived here for 25+ years, nearly all of it w/o a car. I don't need one, and having one would be too much aggravation (circling round and round looking for a parking space, or going to the car in the morning and discovering that a thief has smashed a window).
The biggest challenge in SF today is the exorbitant cost of housing.
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Old 07-28-2017, 01:56 PM
 
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The biggest challenge can also be put as supply falls short of demand... SF is surrounded by water on 3 sides.... the only expansion is often vertical... so more density makes the auto less desirable.

Price is how housing is allocated.

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