Atlanta for $ to cost of living/quality. Rural Alabama like Sylacauga (metro/eletric company fiber to your home) for "work from home". Both my wife and I work from home in rural Georgia (Carrollton)...$300k bought us 25 acres, a refurbished 2500 square feet farm house, 6 stall horse barn, 1/2 acre pond, and shop with concrete floor and electricity. There are options out there, lots of them.
MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
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Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#42I'm not sure if this is a real site or not... but let's assume it is, what's the deal with "Stop waiting in line for brunch"? I get the commute and own your own home things, these seem like BIG deals in life. Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area or is this an inside joke or something like that? Everything I know about living around there I've learned from HN and I…
> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating. New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines…
Having a line out the door also serves as a sort of free advertising for the restaurant. If people are willing to line up and wait for their brunch, it must be good, right?
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#43I got a laugh out of the picture of the house; a stereotypical Eichler. ( https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/what-are-eichler-homes/ ) Eichlers are very common in Palo Alto, but not so common throughout the rest of the US. (Edit: And yes, I left the Bay Area, and bought what most people living in the Bay Area would consider a mansion, in a high-cost-of-living state. I paid less then my Bay Area rent for a 1-bedroom w…
Thanks, I never knew there was a name for this, though I've seen this kind of house all through the Peninsula - there are also a lot of them in the hills west of San Mateo. And, now that I think of it, Erlich Bachmann's house is one.
Likely intentional because Steve Jobs grew up in a similar home.
https://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/jobs-likeler-no-eichl...
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#44From the contact details: 105 North 1st Street #28, San Jose, CA 95113 I'm certainly not an expert, but Wikipedia claims that's in the Bay Area... Are they paying their own team to quit?
I was surprised to see that too. They aren’t walking the walk.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Houses are terrible for the climate?
sprawling suburbs that necessitate driving everywhere are terrible for the climate Houses themselves aren't great for the climate (there's CO2 emission in materials productions, heavy machinery operation, etc), but they're necessary for human survival so it's hard to claim we have an alternative
Also heating a 2k+ Sqft home when you're just two old folk (used to get this a lot in more expensive retirement communities) can't be great!
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#46I'm not sure if this is a real site or not... but let's assume it is, what's the deal with "Stop waiting in line for brunch"? I get the commute and own your own home things, these seem like BIG deals in life. Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area or is this an inside joke or something like that? Everything I know about living around there I've learned from HN and I…
> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating. New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines…
File London under this too, the majority of 'upper mid range' or 'cool' places to eat now are, turn up, sign up to waiting list, come back in 30mins-2hr
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#47I got a laugh out of the picture of the house; a stereotypical Eichler. ( https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/what-are-eichler-homes/ ) Eichlers are very common in Palo Alto, but not so common throughout the rest of the US. (Edit: And yes, I left the Bay Area, and bought what most people living in the Bay Area would consider a mansion, in a high-cost-of-living state. I paid less then my Bay Area rent for a 1-bedroom w…
Thanks, I never knew there was a name for this, though I've seen this kind of house all through the Peninsula - there are also a lot of them in the hills west of San Mateo. And, now that I think of it, Erlich Bachmann's house is one.
Yep, Erlich Bachmann's house immediately came to mind when I saw the picture.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#48Who is this targeting? An engineer already saves far more than this moving to a lower income tax state with lower COL (e.g. Washington, Nevada, Texas).
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating. New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines…
Having a line out the door also serves as a sort of free advertising for the restaurant. If people are willing to line up and wait for their brunch, it must be good, right?
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Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#50I got a laugh out of the picture of the house; a stereotypical Eichler. ( https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/what-are-eichler-homes/ ) Eichlers are very common in Palo Alto, but not so common throughout the rest of the US. (Edit: And yes, I left the Bay Area, and bought what most people living in the Bay Area would consider a mansion, in a high-cost-of-living state. I paid less then my Bay Area rent for a 1-bedroom w…
Wow, he was pretty ahead of his time, i don't mean on only architecture but that is also great.