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Old 04-25-2014, 04:55 AM
 
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Moving to SanFrancisco for work, need advice on the following items below. It's one thing to google this information its another to get people's advice who actually live there.

Top 4 questions I have:

1. Which bank is the most popular and easily accessible in Sanfran/Oakland?

2. Phone company. Must support iPhone technology with LTE dataplan. Most popular in Bay-Area?

3. Internet Service Provider. Lets me attach an external wireless router, and not restricted to their built-in wifi. I prefer QUALITY over PRICE. Any have unlimited package, or 100mbs speeds? Do any charge you for over-limit?

4. Hydro/Heat - I'm assuming SanFran is a monopoly like every other place in N.America when it comes to electricity?




(optional questions - not important):
5. Apartment Rental - max price range $2000. What place to avoid? Websites to find places? I'm young professional, financially secure, athletic and healthy, where to find similar group.

6. Car - or use BART system to get to work in oakland?

7. Best Gym. Money is no object for this.

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Old 04-25-2014, 03:59 PM
 
Location: East Bay, San Francisco Bay Area
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1/ Wells Fargo, BofA, Bank of the West, Chase
2/ AT&T, Verizon, T Mobile
3/ Some cable companies will have 100 mbps speeds, such as Comcast. You can attach a wireless router/access point to the circuit.
4/ PG&E
5/ Avoid in Oakland (west Oakland and east Oakland, between 580-880 freeways and the Coliseum). Avoid in SF: Tenderloin and Bayview areas.
6/ I would use BART
7/ Cannot help you here. I weigh over 500 lbs (joke)
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Old 04-25-2014, 04:51 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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5. You're pretty much priced out of SF, unless you don't mind either a really tiny place (studio) in a sketchy area, or a basement dungeon in a boring foggy area.

6. I would ride my motorcycle, but I'm weird that way. It all depends where in Oakland your job is, and whether they pay for parking. If it's within a few blocks of either of the downtown BART stations (12th or 19th), then BART is probably the best way to go, unless you don't mind sitting in lots of westbound evening traffic jams, and paying for tolls.

7. The Bay Club in SF is a very nice, and suitably expensive, gym. But if your job is in Oakland, it won't be convenient at all, unless you wind up living in Telegraph Hill (which you won't, unless you have roommates).
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