I am a guy in mid 20s and I am quite bored with social life in Sunnyvale/Mountain View. My Tc is around 250k. I am happy to share an apartment and I am fine with a shared bath arrangement too. Can I reasonably afford to live in SF ? I would prefer to live in reasonably safe locality with a good social life. If so, can you please recommend some neighborhoods?
Sure you can afford it but you’re kidding yourself if you think San Francisco is not a boring AF city
“Can you afford” is subjective with your various goals. However, yes you can afford it. You can look into pac heights, nob hill, mission, soma to start.
Is SF that expensive compared to MV and Sunnyvale? I thought they were all in the expensive as fuck range
No, you can't. (I mean really, you already know the answer is you can, not sure why you're going through all this trouble to humble brag. Just proudly announce your TC and your age, saves time for everyone!)
Well I am not really humble bragging , I am looking for some thoughts in how much rent is reasonable to pay with this income .for instance I know that I definitely can't afford 3k+ monthly rents .
You certainly can. If you don't want to that's a different story.
You are 20s and TC 250k. Why you need to stay in core area. Live little bit far. 250k is very good salary to live comfortable with own apartment. You need to learn how to manage expenses.
If it’s not trolling, this seems easy doable. 2k for shared apt + 4K for entertainments. Plus 2k misc. total around 96, or 200k annually.
Can’t you just Uber every weekend to sf?
Of course you can. You can find 1 beds sub 3k in Nob Hill which is a nice clean neighborhood (north of bush). Sf is at worst marginally more expensive than South Bay so I’d you’re can afford Sunnyvale you can afford sf. Sf is amazing and has so much to offer. I love it here and never want to leave. *if you want kids you’ll eventually want to leave but I don’t so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, obviously
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