After leaving SF for 6 months I came back here to see if the housing market is better. I’m here for a month in an Airbnb. I just visited a place that was 4600$/

After leaving SF for 6 months I came back here to see if the housing market is better. I’m here for a month in an Airbnb. I just visited a place that was 4600$/month, 2 tiny bedrooms and all the windows gave on the landlord’s patio. Not like a nice patio, some small space surrounded by buildings, and not like I could see them, I could literally open my window and walk in their patio. I just visited another place today at 5k/month with good location but not rent controlled (so they can pretty much double your rent at will) and the laundry isn’t even in unit. I still have to pay for a parking space. At least it’s not a “tandem” parking, which I’ve been offered a lot these weeks. If you don’t know what a tandem parking is: you have to coordinate with another person because one car always block the other. It’s usually 250$, or more. So right now I’m thinking, why do I want to spend so much to have the privilege to live in this city. It’s filled with homeless, it’s cold all year long, there’s a month of pollution every year due to the wild fires, and there isn’t that many things to do compared to a real city like new york. They don’t even have pedestrian streets or terrasses/patios/beer gardens (parklets are ridiculous). So now I’m really considering moving to san diego, or nyc, or somewhere else…