hehe sounds like my life, moved back from San Francisco to Sydney last year and whereas I used to live a 15 minute bicycle ride from work in SOMA I now live 35

hehe sounds like my life, moved back from San Francisco to Sydney last year and whereas I used to live a 15 minute bicycle ride from work in SOMA I now live 35 minutes train ride from Sydney CBD to hold my housing costs at the same level. "Eating Out" has all but disappeared from my life because to get equivalent quality restaurant food, it's about double to triple the cost of SF. I drink a lot less beer too now don't know whether it's good or bad. I suspect you're right, all the 'nice stuff' and discretionary leisure activities are in the expensive areas so we're all paying indirectly for the insane price of real-estate. Even though I have a mortgage I'm really hoping prices stagnate in absolute $ terms so our real standard of living can catch up again.