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It's much cheaper to live here in Boston than in San Francisco. It is? I've lived in both Cambridge and SF and I thought the rental prices in the city were abo

It's much cheaper to live here in Boston than in San Francisco. It is? I've lived in both Cambridge and SF and I thought the rental prices in the city were about the same. My apartment in San Francisco is cheaper than my apartment in Cambridge. Maybe it is cheaper to buy in Cambridge/Boston? It definitely seems cheaper to buy a place in Boston's burbs than it is in Silicon Valley, Marin, the Peninsula or the East Bay. A friend bought a gigantic McMansion out by Concord for $600K. A house that size 15 miles out of SF or San Jose would be $2-10 million depending on the town.

nostrademons 18y ago
> A friend bought a gigantic McMansion out by Concord for $600K Can't do that anymore. Everything in Concord is over a million now. Same with Lexington & Carlisle. Bedford still has a few in the $600K range (our next-door neighbors bought their house for $615K, and the house across the street sold for $630K), but the bulk of the houses here are over a million too. I'm amazed by the home price appreciation here. When I was a kid, in elementary & middle school, a cheap house was $60K, a pretty decent one was $200K, and you were rich if you had one that cost $400K. Now, $400K is the minimum to get anything in town, a decent house is $600K, and a McMansion is about $1.3M.
- time_management 18y ago
  So Boston hasn't started to get pwned yet? I can't till the housing market reverts to normal prices and all the people who drove it up get shredded. Manhattan has been slow to come around, but when it does, I'm expecting pure beauty.
  - nostrademons 18y ago
    It has. That $630K price is down from $990K at the height of the bubble. Concord houses were about $2-3M in late 2005 and early 2006.
fallentimes 18y ago
Our all in burn rate is roughly 3k per month in the Boston area. All else equal, in SF it'd be close to double that.
- furiouslol 18y ago
  How many engineers do you have in your team?
  - fallentimes 18y ago
    1.2

nostrademons 18y ago

> A friend bought a gigantic McMansion out by Concord for $600K Can't do that anymore. Everything in Concord is over a million now. Same with Lexington & Carlisle. Bedford still has a few in the $600K range (our next-door neighbors bought their house for $615K, and the house across the street sold for $630K), but the bulk of the houses here are over a million too. I'm amazed by the home price appreciation here. When I was a kid, in elementary & middle school, a cheap house was $60K, a pretty decent one was $200K, and you were rich if you had one that cost $400K. Now, $400K is the minimum to get anything in town, a decent house is $600K, and a McMansion is about $1.3M.

time_management 18y ago
So Boston hasn't started to get pwned yet? I can't till the housing market reverts to normal prices and all the people who drove it up get shredded. Manhattan has been slow to come around, but when it does, I'm expecting pure beauty.
- nostrademons 18y ago
  It has. That $630K price is down from $990K at the height of the bubble. Concord houses were about $2-3M in late 2005 and early 2006.

fallentimes 18y ago

Our all in burn rate is roughly 3k per month in the Boston area. All else equal, in SF it'd be close to double that.

furiouslol 18y ago
How many engineers do you have in your team?
- fallentimes 18y ago
  1.2