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Old 10-01-2016, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Knoxville, TN
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If you can up your budget to 1800-2000, you will have more options if you want your own place. That said, sometimes you can find a studio for 1600, but it will probably be small, kind of crappy, and maybe in not the greatest neighborhood.

If you are open to roommates/housemates, that's a way to go as well.
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Old 10-01-2016, 01:51 PM
 
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Why?
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Old 10-01-2016, 01:58 PM
 
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Is Oakland really that bad. I've grown tired of Atlanta and need something new
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Old 10-01-2016, 02:10 PM
 
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It is insanely expensive. Good luck finding housing let alone a house. The problem is the entire SF Bay Area is hella expensive. Maybe try Houston or DFW.

Let me do a cost benefit analysis 1600 dollars will get you a ****ty apartment in the worst part of Cokeland, vs a very nice bachelor pad in Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth or Atlanta.

You are living like a king for 1600 in Atlanta, vs living in squalor for the same money in the SF Bay Area.
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Old 10-01-2016, 03:11 PM
 
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Is Oakland really that bad. I've grown tired of Atlanta and need something new
No its worse. You could pretend you are in Oakland while you are in Atlanta. Just send in 3x your rent every month to your landlord as a gift. Except for the mild summer weather the Bay area offers no advantages over Atlanta.
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Old 10-01-2016, 03:13 PM
 
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Going from Atlanta to Oakland will be a downgrade in my opinion, but you'd be a short distance from San Francisco which will be more cosmopolitan than Atlanta
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Old 10-02-2016, 08:26 PM
 
Location: Palo Alto, CA
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Don't take this the wrong way, but as a web developer in the Bay Area, while you will certainly find work, you are not high on the food chain, and not having a CS degree probably means you don't have very large pay or advancement upside to being here career-wise, although it may make sense as a temporary move. One key thing is: where do you have a network? (if you have one at all.) Whereever you have one is an advantage.

The region is much, much more expensive than you think in (I'm saying that because you indicated thinking it was possible to get a studio for 1600).
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Old 10-02-2016, 08:43 PM
 
Location: SW King County, WA
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Going from Atlanta to Oakland will be a downgrade in my opinion, but you'd be a short distance from San Francisco which will be more cosmopolitan than Atlanta


Says the guy who downgraded from SF to Orlando...
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Old 10-02-2016, 11:32 PM
 
Location: where the good looking people are
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Didn't know that. A few years ago my dad bought a house in a suburb of Austin; the house was cheap, big and in a safe neighborhood.
Central Austin is very pricey but the suburbs are very affordable.
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Old 10-03-2016, 11:18 AM
 
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The urban core of the Bay Area is extremely expensive but worth it in my opinion.where can you find all of these characteristics for cheap?

Economic engines comparable to the bay area's of tech ,biotech and finance

Adult educational attainment comparable to the San Francisco MSA (my data shows only NYC,Boston ,Seattle ,Washington, D.C.)

A housing market with an equal return( a $500k purchase 20 years ago in glen park, rockridge, noe valley now worth ~ $2 million or more)

Academic institutions of the level of Stanford and UC Berkeley ( rated in the top 5 or 10 internationally)

A comparable level of tolerance and acceptance

World class arts ,culture and entertainment (symphony ,opera,Michelin restaurants)


Weather.

No one has been able to Give me an area comparable in ALL FACTORS with cheap housing.
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