# I'm Moving to San Francisco! Now I just need an apartment... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 28, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543 "2006-09-28T22:22:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/21 "2006-09-30T00:04:14Z")
I lived in San Bruno for a year while I house hunted. Nothing to speak of really. There’s a crappy mall that just opened. Living underneath every airplane taking off from SFO takes some getting used to. Brisbane is a cute little town though. Weird that such a place is that near a major city like SF. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/22 "2006-09-30T03:50:54Z")
[QUOTE=nivlac] Oh, , and the statement about the crime is way overstated.. [/QUOTE] Care to inform our Readers what the current Murder toll is just for this year? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![BigDaddyPete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@BigDaddyPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDaddyPete)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/23 "2006-09-30T05:56:04Z")
The Bay Area is a great place to live. But you need to look around. I live in San Mateo County, Redwood City to be exact. Its a nice suburban community. And the commute to SF is pretty easy. I personally hate the East Bay, but that’s because I lived in Hayward for a while, and its not the nice place I was led to believe. ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/24 "2006-09-30T06:03:45Z")
Who led you to believe that Hayward was nice? I grew up there. Whoever they were lived in the hills. The Hayward hills are nice and afford some of the best views in the bay area. Come down from those hills and its mighty different as you apparently found out. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/25 "2006-09-30T15:13:41Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] Care to inform our Readers what the current Murder toll is just for this year? :dubious: [/QUOTE] Well it hit a 10-year high in 2005 with 96 for a population of ~775,000. Which I think still doesn’t put it in the top 10, but is a far cry from 2002, when with 62 it had one of the ten lowest rates in the nation. It still does have one of the lowest rates of rape in the country ( among large cities ). But really your odds of being murdered in SF, as with most everywhere, are extremely low. Unless of course you deliberately pursue risky behavior and/or associations. All large cities have their pockets of danger. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/26 "2006-09-30T19:34:48Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] Being in Brisbane, you’re not in SF (and thank God for that!). You really don;t want to live in SF- greta place to visit, shop, etc, but not to live. Weird politics, high prices, VERY high crime. [/QUOTE] Ah, it aint that bad. Visiting is nice, but, imho, it’s great place to LIVE. ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/27 "2006-09-30T23:07:29Z")
Is there a formal process involved in getting a “dopefest” scheduled? I think the bay area could use one whether it be in Oaktown, Man Jose, SF, Hayweird, Slummyvale, Shallow Alto or Berzerkley. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/28 "2006-09-30T23:46:19Z")
Yes, you schedule dopefests in MPSIMS. I was thinking about doing it myself, but I’m waiting til i’m employed! (Doing that whole post college looking for job and being a bum thing). ---
**Author:** ![tiltypig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@tiltypig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiltypig)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/29 "2006-10-01T00:29:03Z")
Oh, so you got the job. I didn’t remember till you gave your age that you were the one asking for the interview advice a little while back. Congratulations! Are you off to IGN? PC Gamer? IMHO, you should either live super close (biking or non-freeway driving distance) to work, or bite the bullet as far as the commute goes and live in SF (near public transit to your job) so you’re within walking/biking/bus distance of all kinds of fun stuff on the weekends and in the evenings. I think splitting the difference and living in someplace like South SF, that’s neither close to work nor close to the city, just ends up being unsatisfying in both ways. ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/30 "2006-10-01T05:38:07Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonix] Yes, you schedule dopefests in MPSIMS. I was thinking about doing it myself, but I’m waiting til i’m employed! (Doing that whole post college looking for job and being a bum thing). [/QUOTE] Haha! me too. Except it’s much harder when not in the Bay Area. I’m moving there in mid-october though. Very excited. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/31 "2006-10-01T20:22:50Z")
[QUOTE=alanak] Haha! me too. Except it’s much harder when not in the Bay Area. I’m moving there in mid-october though. Very excited. [/QUOTE] you should be. This place is great. I just moved here in september myself. Where you coming from? ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/32 "2006-10-02T19:57:17Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonix] you should be. This place is great. I just moved here in september myself. Where you coming from? [/QUOTE] Well, technically from NM. But I was at Stanford a year ago or so. Took some time off, and now returning. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543/33 "2006-10-03T00:11:07Z")
[QUOTE=kevja] Ah, it aint that bad. Visiting is nice, but, imho, it’s great place to LIVE. [/QUOTE] Right on! There are a lot of nice safe neighborhoods in SF and the quality of life is wonderful, if you can afford it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-to-san-francisco-now-i-just-need-an-apartment/374543.md?page=1)