What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco

Post by hudibras » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 6:53 PM UTC

lflux wrote: post #100

hudibras wrote: post #24

Meanwhile, NFL Sundays will never be the same as 10am kickoffs is something I don’t think I’ll ever get used to. Born and raised in Seattle. Some of my fondest memories growing up were rolling out of bed at 9:45 and sitting down to watch some football in my underwear with a bowl of cereal in my lap. (In college, sweatpants replaced underwear and screwdrivers replaced the cereal.) Now I live in D.C. and it's weird tha…

Try being a (American) football fan in Europe. Some games start at 2am, watching the Super Bowl usually involves me taking the next day off work as the game usually ends around 4am.

Post by bherms » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 6:54 PM UTC

whichdan wrote: post #163

bherms wrote: post #153

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Not my opinion, but I once read somewhere that you should aim for a savings (+investments) of 1x salary by 30, 5x by 40, 10+x by 50.

So someone with 50k/yr of expenses should be making 100k, 250k, and 500k respectively?

Post by teebs » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 6:56 PM UTC

amosson wrote: post #92

JoshTriplett wrote: post #75

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Oregon has done exactly the same thing, though, and it hasn't caused the same problems. We have a balanced budget requirement, an annual cap on property tax increases, a requirement that the legislature can't pass taxes itself but has to put them as ballot measures, and a requirement that no new tax can pass at a special election (non-May non-November) without a 50% turnout (in response to too many ballot-stuffing sp…

I can't speak to Oregon, but in California the voters also specify the things the government has to spend on. We have legislature must spend on. For instance we require that some 60% of the budget go to education. The legislature only have control over something like 20%. Additionally, while this is probably only a small problem now, we will have pension / retiree health care issues.

Post by juan_juarez » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 6:57 PM UTC

kjackson2012 wrote: post #134

softbuilder wrote: post #76

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You lost credibility with me by repeated use of the vulgar "San Fran". It's THE CITY. :)

Yes, no one from the Bay Area refers to San Francisco as "San Fran". Even worse is when people refer to it as "Frisco". It's either SF or "The City".

Post by mikec3k » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

wpietri wrote: post #42

bluetidepro wrote: post #8

OP, did you honestly not know how expensive it was, as well as a few of these other points in the article? I would be shocked if that's the case. Most of the items in the post are pretty well-known things about the San Fran area. More or less, the title is a bit of link bait, and I doubt most of you don't already know these things about San Fran (or the bay area, for that matter).

It has been getting more expensive quickly, so no, most people don't know how expensive it is. In particular, the rental situation is now back to 1999 levels of crazy. As to many of the rest, they were exactly the things that I was surprised by when I moved here, and they are things I hear about from noobs all the time.