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I pay $1750 for a 1br in San Mateo, and I feel like I have a great deal, rent is insane out here. let me frame it like this my mortgage, including taxes and ins

by kenrikm 13y ago

I pay $1750 for a 1br in San Mateo, and I feel like I have a great deal, rent is insane out here. let me frame it like this my mortgage, including taxes and insurance for a 4br house near the beach in Florida is $600/mo.

phamilton 13y ago
Curious.. why don't you live in Florida then? What are the reasons, tangible and intangible for living in San Mateo instead?
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- sliverstorm 13y ago
  He rents and has a mortgage; perhaps his family is in Florida, he works in SF, and his pad in San Mateo is his "home away from home"?
- Finbarr 13y ago
  It's equidistant from SF and Palo Alto, with rent way cheaper than both. The downtown area is well developed with lots of restaurants. San Mateo also has good transport links with easy freeway access to the 101, 92 and 280, and most of the caltrains stop here.
  - kenrikm 13y ago
    Old Town Sushi FTW, seriously though San Mateo is a great location I'm right next to downtown, Half Moon Bay is only 15min away. I need to stop, I don't want the secret to get out and my rent to go up. :P
    - rdl 13y ago
      San Mateo County also has the best government in the Bay Area.
- kenrikm 13y ago
  I had a stable job that paid enough to live a decent lifestyle that I could have worked at for who knows? 20 or 30 years, there were employees that had worked there for 50 - 60 years. When faced with the prospect of living the same life doing the same thing for the rest of my days, I woke up and set out to live with a purpose. I'm 29, my dad died at 49, keeping that in mind lights a fire under my ass every day.