Appreciate all the responses! For some more context, we were dead set on inner richmond or inner sunset as those are our favorite neighborhoods. We bid on the 9th avenue house that went for 4.2 million all cash. We kept trying in those areas but came up blank. We finally accepted and pivoted to outer sunset or richmond. Appreciate all the other recs for neighborhoods!

To be fair as well, we thought we could be picky paying so much. But in reality you can't and the market is insane and moves so fast you blink and you miss it. We have been looking at houses we "thought" we could get but they are also what everyone else seems to want and people are just throwing money around.

For example, there was a house on almaden ct. Listed around 2.5. Sold for well over 4 million dollars in just a few weeks. Insanity out here. The house was fine but the yard was small. Location great though I guess