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Like where?! The rest of the Bay Area (except maybe Oakland and Berkeley) strikes me as a cookie-cutter, suburban hell-scape. I've visited Palo Alto, San Matteo

Like where?! The rest of the Bay Area (except maybe Oakland and Berkeley) strikes me as a cookie-cutter, suburban hell-scape. I've visited Palo Alto, San Matteo, Pleasanton, Fremont, and San Jose in the course of my time in the East Bay, and I couldn't help but ask myself why the heck anyone would live there. I don't see anything unique in those places--why not live in a suburb anywhere else, at 1/8th of the cost?

NewJazz 3y ago
I mean... I'm not about to go giving away info on all the nice spots... But there are some places out there with good schools, a reasonable balance of transit/development and open space, and affordable (by bay area standards) housing.
- johnfn 3y ago
  > I mean... I'm not about to go giving away info on all the nice spots... Do you really think that telling one person on Hacker News about a nice spot is going to make that spot stop being nice?
  - NewJazz 3y ago
    No, but it was will marginally bid up the price of housing, which is my number one expense right now and my expected number one expense for the foreseeable future. Maybe this whole thread is a mislead and someone has their eyes on the peninsula ;)
aplummer 3y ago
I mean on your list, Palo Alto is pretty nice. Even from a non-US perspective.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
  I've lived in Palo Alto, and there are nicer bits and others less so, but overall it's just the suburbs. All suburbs feel the same to me: empty and lifeless. I moved to the Tenderloin in SF and I was much happier, it was very lively indeed.
- baby 3y ago
  It’s still a suburb meaning you’ll get bored and your social life will suck
ljhsiung 3y ago
I love San Mateo downtown :(
nitwit005 3y ago
> why not live in a suburb anywhere else, at 1/8th of the cost? Where is this suburb that's an 8th the cost? 8 hours of travel away?
baby 3y ago
To me SF is a big suburb as well
jjav 3y ago
> Like where?! I would say just about anywhere in the Bay Area would be nicer than SF. Cupertino, Campbell, southern San Jose, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Cruz (not quite Silicon Valley but sort of), Alameda, Gilroy, etc. I'd say the only place I'd avoid more than SF is Oakland.

NewJazz 3y ago

I mean... I'm not about to go giving away info on all the nice spots... But there are some places out there with good schools, a reasonable balance of transit/development and open space, and affordable (by bay area standards) housing.

johnfn 3y ago
> I mean... I'm not about to go giving away info on all the nice spots... Do you really think that telling one person on Hacker News about a nice spot is going to make that spot stop being nice?
- NewJazz 3y ago
  No, but it was will marginally bid up the price of housing, which is my number one expense right now and my expected number one expense for the foreseeable future. Maybe this whole thread is a mislead and someone has their eyes on the peninsula ;)

aplummer 3y ago

I mean on your list, Palo Alto is pretty nice. Even from a non-US perspective.

dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
I've lived in Palo Alto, and there are nicer bits and others less so, but overall it's just the suburbs. All suburbs feel the same to me: empty and lifeless. I moved to the Tenderloin in SF and I was much happier, it was very lively indeed.
baby 3y ago
It’s still a suburb meaning you’ll get bored and your social life will suck

ljhsiung 3y ago

I love San Mateo downtown :(

nitwit005 3y ago

> why not live in a suburb anywhere else, at 1/8th of the cost? Where is this suburb that's an 8th the cost? 8 hours of travel away?

baby 3y ago

To me SF is a big suburb as well

jjav 3y ago

> Like where?! I would say just about anywhere in the Bay Area would be nicer than SF. Cupertino, Campbell, southern San Jose, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Cruz (not quite Silicon Valley but sort of), Alameda, Gilroy, etc. I'd say the only place I'd avoid more than SF is Oakland.