Honestly, not a lot of people actually live in San Francisco (SF population is like 800k), most people live in the surrounding suburbs. I live in South San Francisco, which is a different city a few miles away, and I think it's a great location. I'm still close to SF, but I'm also close to the rest of the area. I would really like to someday live up in the hills in one of the towns further south, like Burlingame, San Carlos, or even Palo Alto or Woodside. The problem is that those areas are super expensive - like, the most expensive in the world - so there isn't much hope that I'll ever afford a place there.
There are cheaper areas in the north bay and the east bay, but traffic can be so bad that it takes hours to get into the city. I do like San Jose, but traffic is also really bad there and it is still pretty expensive.
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sumosloths, 28 January 2020, 21:48